Ingapirca

Today we went to Ingapirca and saw a ton of beautiful ruins. The story is, the Canari tribe built the place but the Incas wanted to take over. The Incas tried to take over but the Canaris were too powerful. The Incas wanted the land and the only way that was going to happen was if an important Incan married a Canarian. So an Incan leader marred the Canarian princess and they shared the land.

This is how the two tribes arent really going anymore. The Incan leader had two sons who were given land to rule separately. When their father died when they were grown up they split the tribe in half and fought each other for the leadership. That killed a lot of them. While they were still weak, the Spanish Conquistadors came and killed them all. Those 2 wars were part of the reason that the buildings of this site were in complete ruins.

The bigger reason is that the people who came after them used the rock to build new houses (more modern ones). The place was turned into a park and now has tons of llamas like in the picture I put above(left). The picture(right) shows how the houses were aranged. It is a little small but you can see the base of the houses. The rectangle is built by the Incans and the circle ones are built by the Canarians.