Tipón

The Tipón complex is located near Oropesa in the Community of Choquepata, Quispicanchi Province, southeast of Cusco [1]. The upper part of the Tipón complex is crossed by three Inca canals that divert the waters of the Pukara river and feed it for the cultivation of the entire complex; one of them flows on top of an intact stone aqueduct [1]. In 1984 Tipón was declared a National Archaeological Park of Peru and in 2006 was put on the List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks by the American Society of Civil Engineers [1]. The reports of the archaeological works conclude that the site was continuously occupied from the Formative stage, by the Marcavalle culture, around 1000 BCE, through the Chanapata, Qotakalli, Huari and Killke, until the Inca period [1]. Cruz Moqo is the highest point of Tipón Archaeological Park at an elevation of 3,960 metres and contains important petroglyphs [1].