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<< Text Pages >> Rio Abiseo National Park - Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru

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Multi-periodSite Name: Rio Abiseo National Park Alternative Name: Abiseo River Basin
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 118.401 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: East of Trujillo  Nearest Village: province of Mariscal Caceres
Latitude: 7.75S  Longitude: 77.25W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Settlement in Peru.
The park is home to a large number of species of flora and fauna, as well as the location of over 30 pre-Columbian archaeological sites. Since 1986, the park has not been open to tourism due to the fragile nature of both the natural and archaeological environment.

The Rio Abiseo National Park is located in the San Martín region of Peru between the Marañón and Huallaga rivers, the park has an area of approximately 2,745.2 square kilometres. UNESCO pronounced it as Natural and Cultural Heritage of Humanity (World Heritage Site) in 1990.< br />
The residents of this area were the Chachapoyas, also know as "The Warriors of the Clouds". They were an Andean people living in the cloud forests of the Amazonas region of present-day Peru. The Incas conquered their civilization shortly before the arrival of the Spanish in Peru. When the Spanish arrived in Peru in the 16th century, the Chachapoyas were one of the many nations ruled by the Inca Empire. Their incorporation into the Inca Empire had not been easy, due to their constant resistance to the Inca troops.

The chronicler, Pedro Cieza de León, wrote the following of the Chachapoyas: “They are the whitest and most handsome of all the people that I have seen in Indies, and their wives were so beautiful that because of their gentleness, many of them deserved to be the Incas' wives and to also be taken to the Sun Temple (...) The women and their husbands always dressed in woolen clothes and in their heads they wear their llautos, which are a sign they wear to be known everywhere.”

Recorded accounts, such as that of Cieza de León, indicate that the Chachapoyas had lighter skin than other South American peoples and blond hair. This poses an enduring mystery for scholars of the region as to their ultimate origin.

Photo slide show by Enrico Martino which shows many of the archaeological sites

Wikipedia on the Chachapoyas Culture.
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