Ingapirca Inca Fortress Ruins

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Just 70 kilometres north of the UNESCO city of Cuenca sits another World Heritage Site – Ecuador’s largest and most significant Inca ruins of the Ingapirca Fortress.

It is believed that Inca sun-worshippers built this fortress-temple, on a ledge high above the Cañar valley, on a site previously occupied by the Cañari people. A burial site remains as testament to these beginnings, and the Inca ruins display classic interlocking stonework that fit together perfectly without mortar.

Here visitors can explore the Temple of the Sun, a stone fortress with several trapezoidal doorways and stone walls, an elliptical platform, Inca barracks and a ‘tambo’ check-point that is one of the many that used to line the Inca Road between Cusco and Quito.

There is a decent museum at the site and a stone ‘Inca Face’ and zoomorphic carvings etched into the rock-face.

The ruins are at an altitude of 10,595 feet (3,230 meters) above sea level.

 

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