Q'enqo

Q'enqo



Q'enqo

 It is located 4 kilometers to the northeast from the city of Cuzco, it's altitude is of 3680 m.s.n.m. The ruins of Q'enqo are formed by a laberynth, a semicircular backyard, some niches and a chapel. the territory occupied by Q'enqo is over 3500 m².

This place had many uses, one of them was predicting the future of the production of crops, of the wealth of the empire, etc. They made this predictions by sacrifying black llamas on a rock table. There was a group of priests around the table, each especialized on interpreting each of the movements, sounds, color of blood, bloodshed, etc. Also Q'enqo was used to momify the people of the high society, the method they used was natural momification, it consisted in changing the place of the body from a cold envinronment to a hot one and viceversa.