Tambo Colorado

Tambo Colorado is a well-preserved Inca adobe complex near the coast of Peru, also known under the Quechua names Puka Tampu ("red resting place"), Pukallaqta ("red place") or Pukawasi ("red house") [1]. The site is located just inland from the south coast of Perú in the Pisco River Valley about 40 km along the highway to Ayacucho known as the Via de los Libertadores [1]. The site was most likely built at the end of the 15th century during the reign of the Inca king Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui also known as Pachacutec [1]. The site owes its name to the abundant use of colors on the walls [1]. Thanks to favorable environmental conditions, many walls at Tambo, both internal and external, retain enough residual colored paint to accurately reconstruct what the original wall painting would have been like [1]. The site consists of several structures around a large central plaza [1]. The central plaza is shaped like a trapezoid with its largest side being 150 m long [1].