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Kuelap

This magnificent megalithic construction was officially discovered in 1843 by judge Juan Crisóstomo Nieto. His description of the ruins - the dimensions he recorded meant its volume was three times that of the Great Pyramid of Cheops.

Kuelap has attracted the attention of several scientists, including Antonio Raimondi (1860), the Swiss geologist Arthur ertheman (1870- 75), the French explorer Charles Wiener (1881) and the Swiss anthropologist Adolph Bandelier (1893).

Photographer : Beto Santillán (bsant@andesmadness.com)
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Album by Beto Santillan. 1 - 143 of 143 Total. 41814 Visits.

1 First Light over Kuelap	2 First Light over Kuelap	3 First light over Kuelap	4 First light over Kuelap
5 Main gate	6 Main gate	7 Sunrise over Kuelap farmland	8 Kuelap at Sunrise
9 Lower town	10 Reconstructed house	11 Main gate	12 Circular House
13 Rombos	14 Central Tower	15 Circular houses	16 Rombos
17 Snakes	18 New excavations, shows sculpted faces	19 Sculpted Face	20 Monkey
21 face	22 snakes?	23 Snake	24 Monkey face
25 Rombos	26 Lower complex	27 Higher complex	28 Main gate
29 western entrance	30 main gate	31 Main gate and outer walls	32 Narrow passage on the main gate
33 Main tower	34 Auxiliary eastern gate	35 Main Entrance	36 Outer walls
37 lower complex	38 Western walls	39 Rombos	40 massive exterior stone walls
41 Ink well	42 Upper complex walls	43 upper town	44 Southern wall
45 Circular Houses	46 Circular Houses	47 Circular Houses	48 Circular Houses
49 Circular Houses	50 Circular Houses	51 Circular Houses	52 Circular Houses
53 Kuelap outside walls "The fortress of Kuelap lies ..." "impresionante!!!!!!!!!!!!!" View Comments...	54 Main entrance ""Kuelap was designed to..." View Comments...	55 Kuelap topo	56 Main entrance
57 Kuelap Inside walls "Beto, ese eres tu ??? quier..." "Ese beto tiene sus fans!!!" View Comments...	58 Driving to Kuelap	59 Hiking to Kuelap	60 Rombos
61 Main entrance	62 rombo	63 Bromelidas	64 Kuelap farms
65 leaf	66 Kuelap farms	67 the monkey	68 Circular Constructions
69 Falta poco, no te duermas	70 Huancas House	71 Kuelap	72 Main entrance
73 Kuelap Houses	74 Circular Construction	75 The door "Es impresionente!!!" View Comments...	76 Uctubamba River
77	78	79 Main entrance	80 View from the Main entrance
81 Main gate at sunrise	82 Corontachaca Waterfalls	83 Corontachaca Waterfalls "Cuanta belleza!!" "realmente hermosa la catarat..." "Queremos ir ahí!!!!" View Comments...	84 Uctubamba Canyon
85 Uctubamba River	86 The snake	87 reconstructed house	88
89 El Tintero	90 Main gate	91 east view from Kuelap	92 Auxiliary entrance
93 Upper complex walls	94 almost there	95 Quisango village	96 San Isidro
97 mountains view from kuelap "el cielo la vegetación y la ..." View Comments...	98 Kuelap Hillsides "WOW!!!" View Comments...	99 Uctubamba valley	100 Chachapoyas at night
101 Chachapoyas at night	102 Corontachaca waterfalls	103 Sumrise over kuelap hills	104 circular houses
105 Rombos	106 Road to Kuelap	107 West view from Kuelap	108 Bromelidas "Las Orquidas muy bonitas" View Comments...
109 House	110 Circular decorations	111 Upper complex	112 Upper complex wall
113 Bromelidas	114 royalty and high priests complex	115 upper complex	116 royalty and high priests complex
117 northern entrance	118 Narrow passage on the main gate	119 Main gate	120 Fees
121 long drive	122 Biking to Kuelap! anyone ?	123 road to Kuelap	124 Road to kuelap
125 Kuelap farmland	126 Road to Kuelap	127 Deep canyons near kuelap	128 Tingo Nuevo
129 Uctubamba valley	130 Tingo Church	131 Animals! please read	132 Macro City, near uctubamba river
133 Uctubamba canyon, you can´t even see the river, it is way deeper than colca.	134 Sunrise over Sonche Canyon	135 Sunrise over Sonche Canyon "maestro de la Luz, tu si que..." "que tal foto man, de la ptm" "Estupendo .. Highlander" View Comments...	136 Chachapoyas street
137 Mayor´s Office	138 Chachapoyas street	139 Typical balconies all over the city	140 Sunrise over Sonche Canyon "uffff" View Comments...
141 Roasted Guinea Pig "no se fien del aspecto es un..." View Comments...	142 yum ! it was delicious	143 Overview "I found your site through a ..." View Comments...

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Beto:

Qué magníficas fotos !!.

Haz hecho muchos de los destinos que yo he fotografiado (no con tanto éxito) y otros que estan en agenda, como el de Kuelap.

Qué buenas que estan muchas de las fotos, de verdad Beto.

Un abrazo.

Miguel

PD: Hace varios años ya , antes de que yo tenga la afición por la fotografía, acudí a una exposición de Heinz
Plengue, en el Convento de Sto Domingo , fué alucinante, cada sala era un Parque Nacional o una Zona Reservada :
Manú, Tambopata, Pacaya Samirira, etc, etc.
Cuando adquirí el hobbie, nunca olvidé dicha exposición, y quizé hacer los mismos recorridos .
Veo que tu también haz tenido esa intención, retratar nuestro maravilloso pais.

Nuevas felicitaciones.
- Miguel Mellado, Fri, 6 Jul 2007 9:26AM

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