Pukará de Quitor

"Fotos en que los cerros se confunden con el cielo".





Pukará de Quitor is located 3 Kms. from San Pedro. .

·Acá se llevó a cabo el sitio de "los sin cabeza" guiado por Francisco de Aguirre durante la conquista española, en el cual jefes atacameños fueron decapitados como muestra del poder extranjero".


It is a fort builded in the XII century lies on the summit of a hill over the river San Pedro. Pukará de Quitor is an ancient indian fortress.
Declared National Monument in 1982. Its construction pre-Inca dates from the XII century. Builded over rocks that form the surface of a hill as a fortress with a perimetral defence wall. The ruins of Pukará de Quitor are located in a bend of the bankruptcy where flows the waters of San Pedro river, or Río Grande (Grande river) and over a inclined plane of strong slopes.
It takes its name from the pre-Hispanic group, the "Ayllu de Quitor", whose cultives fields are born on the foot of the Pukará Quitor, fort erected in the course of the XII century, like an answer to the expansionistic of the Aymaras neighbors .

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