ARCHEOLOGICAL ATTRACTIONS OUTSIDE THE CITY:

Saqsaywaman:

Important archeological group located north of the Main Plaza of the city of the Cusco, from now on and above the Qolqanpata's neighborhood, the one he joins up with by means of a street at slope of almost a block of houses of length. The one you advance for on foot, Saqsaywaman not this separated of the city, for who goes by vehicle, Saqsaywaman is in the parish church of San Cristóbal to a kilometer.

Saqsaywaman is a Quechuan compound word, comes from saqsay that signifies to become satiated or stuffing oneself, and of waman that the falcon, that was an abundant bird of prey in Peruvian saw, tutelary numen or the first Inca Manco Cápac's protective entity is.
Saqsaywaman was The Real House of the sun in the Incas' epoch and understands several sectors:
. Large fortified towers, of whom remain only the foundations of the three that Garcilaso describes. The three large fortified towers named him Muyuc marks ( circular place ), Paucar marks and Sallaj marks or rough place.
. Recintos's Group, beautiful rooms with a view to the city.
. Bastions, arranged in three levels, broken straight lines, forming one furnished with teeth of bights and ledges with obtuse angles. The set is orientated in general terms of this to west with front toward Chukipanpa's or Planicie's esplanade of The Real lances. Walls the stones are made with enormous blocks of calcareous rock, impressive irregular polyhedrons assembled among themselves with utmost perfection, with external polished surface and convexity in the same some they show brackets that increase their enigmatic character. The extraordinary dimension of the stones ( some of 5 m of height and more than 350 heavy tons ) and the perfection in the ensamblamiento of the polyhedrons with sides and unequal angles, they were motive of unanimous admiration in all the epochs.

Other interesting Saqsaywaman's sectors are: Rumipunku, doors, the outer wall, platforms and aqueducts, the Rodadero or Suchuna, the Throne of the Inka, Warmi K'ajchana, the Restroom of the Inca, amphitheaters, the Chincanas, the Inca's Throne, and the Been Tiresome Stone.
The other attractions that the Parque Arquelógico of Saqsaywaman comprises are:

to. Qolqanpata.
b. Q'enqo Grande and Q'enqo Chico c. Laqo
d. K'usilluchayoq
and. Lanlakuyoq
f. Puka pukara
g. Tanpumach'ay or Tambomachay h. Llaullipata or seven Trays.
i. Chakan or Chacán.

Big Q'enqo and Small Q'enqo:

The word Q'enqo, it means maze, twisted, with a lot of turns, is the name of two archeological close groups to each other that enormous outcrops of calcareous rock of the formation have like base Yuncaypata. The whole musical group positions himself on the hill that fits the Orient of the city, that today he is named Socorro. They are two very important sets in the Incanato and they were sanctuaries.

Q'enqo synthesizes himself in the following: The Intiwatana, once which was constituted by two stony protruding parts of cylindrical, intervening form the Amautas measured time, established stations, solstices and equinoxes.
The zig-zagging gutter: Located fence the Intiwatana, depart from a little hole, he moves around deorsum in inclined plane and zigzag line, next he bifurcates. One of the branches drove ellíquido put into to circulate to the subterranean camera or Sala of the Sacrifices.

The amphitheater, the tolmo or tormo occupy considerable space, they are ahead and toward the Orient of the great crag, they are 19 big niches or incomplete vaulted niches, in a stony semicircular piece of cloth of 55 meters in length. Presiding at the set, in front of the curved wall and leaving appreciable clear area, the six-meter tormo is in height, on a solid rectangular pedestal, the monolith that notoriously proves to have been a giant-sized sculpture, has trails of having been hard-hit for the extirpators of idolatries.

The living room of the Sacrifices is a subterranean camera made in the internal part, portion comes down from the great crag.
The subterranean camera's solid stony table may have been used to embalm cadávares of the dried peaches or place of human sacrifices.

Puka Pukara:

This archeological group positions itself to 7 Km. From the Cusco's city, en route that it leads to Písac. Your name means Red fortress. This fixed by a little plaza and from the complex's any point was communication with Tambomachay's large fortified tower, different a kilometer.

In Puka Pukara, there are enclosure markeds off by definite limits, interior plazas, restrooms, aqueducts, lookout posts and an ancient road easily recognizable. Buildings are made out of stones between medians and children, the external surface of the polyhedrons is lightly wrinkled unlike other architectonic groups.

Besides seats, aqueducts, carvings exist as gear, alleys and short platforms.

Tambomachay:

To 8 Km. From the city of the Cusco, to a kilometer of pukapukara, at the road asphalted Cusco Písaco Your name comes from tanpu that means collective and temporary lodging, and Mach'ay that it means resting place. Your name comes from the Incanato. You know the tradition to this place like the Inca's Restroom, it could be your resting place.