Cutimbo
Full Day
The archaeological complex of Cutimbo is located 22 km. from the city of Puno, Cutimbo is a cemetery, where there are funerary towers called chullpas of different shapes and sizes, these funerary towers are of stones of great magnitude and with angles perfectly fitted and decorated with images of animals of power in high relief, this explains that they had a deep-rooted cult of the dead and belief in immortality (they passed to a better life). Cutimbo had a long occupation due to its strategic geographical location, its area of influence and its ceremonial, ritual and religious use.
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The archaeological complex of Cutimbo is located 22 km. from the city of Puno, Cutimbo is a cemetery, where there are funerary towers called chullpas of different shapes and sizes, these funerary towers are of stones of great magnitude and with angles perfectly fitted and decorated with images of animals of power in high relief, this explains that they had a deep-rooted cult of the dead and belief in immortality (they passed to a better life). Cutimbo had a long occupation due to its strategic geographical location, its area of influence and its ceremonial, ritual and religious use.
