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Ingapirca
Hatun Cañar / Inka Pirka
Ecuador ingapirca inca ruins
Ingapirca, the temple of the sun
Ingapirca is located in Ecuador
Quito
Quito
Ingapirca
Ingapirca
Ingapirca (Ecuador)
RegionCañar Province
Coordinates2°32′54.9168″S 78°52′18.768″W / 2.548588000°S 78.87188000°W / -2.548588000; -78.87188000
History
CulturesInca
Site notes
Public accessyes
Websitehttp://www.complejoingapirca.gob.ec/

Ingapirca (Kichwa: Inka Pirka, "Inca wall") is a town in Cañar Province, Ecuador, and the name of the older Inca ruins and archeological site nearby.[1][2]

These are the largest known Inca ruins in Ecuador.[3] The most significant building is the Temple of the Sun, an elliptically shaped building constructed around a large rock.

  1. ^ Hyslop, John (19 February 2014). Inka Settlement Planning. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. p. 384. ISBN 9780292762640. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  2. ^ Greenspan, Eliot (1 June 2011). Frommer's Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (3rd ed.). USA: Frommer's. p. 214. ISBN 9781118100325. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  3. ^ Lauderbaugh, George (22 February 2012). The History of Ecuador. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 5. ISBN 9780313362514. Retrieved 13 November 2014.

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