Kuélap’s artificial platform measures about 584 meters long—often rounded to 600 meters—and roughly 110 meters wide. Its perimeter walls reach about 19–20 meters high, and the construction is estimated to have used three times the material of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Around 400 structures occupy the platforms. The Tintero (Inkwell), a roughly 5-meter-high, 13-meter-wide cylinder, may have had ritual or astronomical functions. Restoration followed a partial collapse of the south wall. Kuélap is regarded as the Chachapoya region’s largest known ancient settlement.
Kuélap: vast walled settlement nearly 600 meters long with 400 structures
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- Kuélap's artificial platform is about 584 meters long—often rounded to 600 meters—and roughly 110 meters wide; its perimeter walls reach about 19–20 meters high.
- The construction is estimated to have used three times as much material as the Great Pyramid of Giza.
- About 400 structures occupy the site's platforms.
- The Tintero (Inkwell) is a roughly 5-meter-high, 13-meter-wide cylindrical structure; ritual or astronomical functions have been proposed but are not established.
- Restoration work followed a partial collapse of the south wall.
- Kuélap is regarded as the largest known ancient settlement of the Chachapoya region.
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