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	Operational Projects in Latin america and the Caribbean: Kuntur Wasi (Peru)
		In 1978, the Committee for the Defence of Kuntur Wasi Monument was formed in the village of Pueblo Nuevo.
		Kuntur Wasi could well become a model for the preservation and restoration of monumental sites.
		The excavations and the construction of the museum have contributed in no small measure to the human resource development of the villagers.
	www.unesco.org /culture/heritage/tangible/peru/html_eng/index_en.shtml (458 words)

	Kuntur Wasi culture and attractions. Kuntur Wasi travel and tours. Kuntur Wasi Hotels, youth hostels, lodging, ...
		Kuntur Wasi (House of the condor in Quechua) is the name given to ruins of a religious center with complex architecture and stone sculptures, located in the Andean highlands of Peru.
		Kuntur Wasi is located in the Northern Mountain Range of Peru, specifically at the headwaters of the Jequetepeque River, in the region of the city of Cajamarca near the small town of San Pablo.
		Kuntur Wasi is thought to have been constructed around 1000-700 B.C.E., during the Initial Period.
	www.mundoandino.com /Peru/Kuntur-Wasi (348 words)

	The oldest gold in the Andes \| The Japan Times Online
		The site of Kuntur Wasi ("House of the Condor"), in Cajamarca Department in the northwestern part of Peru, was discovered in 1946 by local residents who noted stone walls and scattered artifacts and informed the National Museum in Lima.
		Kuntur Wasi, on the western watershed of the Andes, was selected.
		The jaguar clearly had deep meaning for the people of Kuntur Wasi; the mask motif is repeated from the tiny necklace beads through pottery to giant stone bas-reliefs.
	search.japantimes.co.jp /member/member.html?fa20000611a1.htm (949 words)

	PORTALE PERU' - Il portale italiano sul Perù
		Kuntur Wasi non finirà di sorprendere gli archeologi.
		Le opere di restauro di Kuntur Wasi previste per quest'anno sono quasi concluse.
		Dopo aver individuato i primi monoliti nel 1946, non furono più eseguiti scavi a Kuntur Wasi (La Casa del Condor), fino a quando la missione archeologica dell'Università di Tokio iniziò il suo lavoro di ricerca nel 1988.
	www.sudamerica.it /portali/peru/servizi/rubriche/rubriche_72-cod_2002005-sito_001.php (1102 words)

	ENJOY PERU - CAJAMARCA - TURISMO en AREQUIPA
		En 1988 se inició una investigación más detallada de Kuntur Wasi, que estuvo a cargo de la Misión Arqueológica de la Universidad de Tokio.
		Kuntur Wasi fue destruido y abandonado de manera definitiva en el año 250 a.C. Se encuentra en el cerro La Copa (2,300 m.s.n.m.), distrito de Chilete (provincia de San Pablo), a 93 kilómetros de Cajamarca.
		Museo de Sitio Arqueológico Kuntur Wasi, exhibe varias réplicas de las piezas halladas en las últimas excavaciones, además de ceramios, objetos fabricados con piedras semipreciosas, restos óseos y líticos.
	www.enjoyperu.com /guiadedestinos/cajamarca/cajamarca-atracciones.htm (3675 words)

	Chavín (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kuntur Wasi se sitúa en la sierra norte del Perú, en la cuenca del río Jequetepeque, en Cajamarca, sobre el pequeño poblado de San Pablo.
		En las tumbas excavadas en Kuntur Wasi el ajuar funerario incluye collares, coronas, orejeras, cuentas y pectorales de oro repujados y calados con diseños de cabezas-trofeo y de personajes de las iconografías chavinoide, Cupisnique y de una peculiar modalidad local asociada a Kuntur Wasi y a la región del Jequetepeque.
		Las conexiones de Kuntur Wasi con Chavín pudieron estar asociadas al oro, pero existen también evidencias de un mismo tipo de vasijas, que en Chavín se conocen con el nombre de Mosna y cuya distribución llegó hasta las regiones de Huánuco y Ancash.
	chavin.perucultural.org.pe /kunturwasi.shtml (248 words)

	Amazon.com: "Kuntur Wasi": Key Phrase page
		The Formative ceremonial structures at Huacaloma and Layzon, within 10 km, of modern Cajamarca, as well as Kuntur Wasi, have rectangular and circular fieldstone buildings with plastered walls and plastered floors on multitiered platforms, accessed by stone-lined staircases.
		Kuntur Wasi, Ocharan 182, Miraflores, T01- 444 0557.
		Recom- is high mended is Kuntur Wasi, Ocharan 182, T4440557, English-speaking owner very knowledge- able about Peruvian textiles, frequently has exhibitions of fine folk art and crafts.
	amazon.com /phrase/Kuntur-Wasi (372 words)

	Cajamarca - Wiki Sumaq Peru
		Esta Área Natural Protegida comprende una superficie de 29 500 hectáreas y protege a los bosques de neblina con su flora y fauna característica, a su vez también protege especies de aves (33 especies) y mamíferos (17 especies).
		Se encuentra ubicado a 93 km al noreste de la ciudad de Cajamarca (aproximadamente 2 horas en auto) se llega a la localidad de Chilete y luego se recorren 25 km más para llegar a Kuntur Wasi.
		Aquí se puede aprecira un muestra permanente de los objetos encontrados en las excavaciones de Kuntur Wasi.
	wiki.sumaqperu.com /es/Cajamarca (1596 words)

	Permanent Delegation of Japan to UNESCO - Kuntur Wasi Prehistoric Temples, Peru
		Permanent Delegation of Japan to UNESCO - Kuntur Wasi Prehistoric Temples, Peru
		Kuntur Wasi in northern Peru is the site of a ceremonial centre from the formative period (1200-50 BC) of Ancient Andean civi-lization, consisting of an architectural complex and stone sculp-tures.
		In 1946, Peruvian archaeologists found 12 stone sculptures at the site, and since 1988 the University of Tokyo has excavated eight tombs associated with the ancient gold art of the American continents, establishing a site chronology.
	www.unesco.emb-japan.go.jp /htm/kumturwasi.htm (229 words)

	Pérou: UNESCO Secteur de la culture
		In 1978, the Committee for the Defence of Kuntur Wasi Monument was formed in the village of Pueblo Nuevo.Thanks to the aid of the Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture of Japan, the Archaeological Mission of the University of Tokyo has been carrying out excavations and researches since 1988.
		Kuntur Wasi could well become a model for the preservation and restoration of monumental sites.
		The excavations and the construction of the museum have contributed in no small measure to the human resource development of the villagers.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=4828&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (452 words)

	INKAWASI TRAVEL SERVICE - RUNDREISE IM NORDEN PERUS
		Nach unserer Ankunft in Cajamarca, Transfer zum ausgewählten Hotel.
		Am Nachmittag fahren wir in den Bezirk San Pablo und besichtigen Kuntur Wasi, ein pre-inkaisches religiöses und administratives Zentrum, welches erst vor kurzem von Archäologen der Universität von Tokio entdeckt wurde.
		Besuchen Sie das Museum von Kuntur Wasi, welches in der Nähe der Ruinen von der japanischen Mission errichtet wurde.
	www.inkawasitravel.com /deutsch/peru-touren-reisen/peru-rundreisen/rundreise-norden-perus.htm (1070 words)

	Colca canyon Arequipa Peru
		Note that this entry to Colca is generally not asked to people entering in public bus, but that you'll have to pay it anyway at the Cruz del Condor Mirador if you make a stop there between 7:00 and 9:00 am.
		If you spend a night at Cabanaconde, there is an additional cost of 8 US$ for hotel La Posada del Conde and 22 US$ for hotel Kuntur Wasi (per person in double or triple room).
		With 4 days, you should be able to do the big tour (Cabanaconde-San Juan-Tapay-Cosñirhua-Fure-Llahuar-Cabanaconde), even if you choose to sleep one night (first or last) in Cabanaconde for a better comfort.
	www.hoteltintin.com /colcaing.php (1412 words)

	Nambei Travel Peru
		Desde 1988, la misión arqueológica de la Universidad de Tokio, junto a grupos comunales de la zona, vienen estudiando la tradición cultural reflejada en Kuntur Wasi.
		Museo de Sitio de Kuntur Wasi: A 5 km.
		Muestra permanente de los objetos de oro, piedras semi-preciosas, cerámica, restos líticos y restos óseos hallados en las excavaciones de Kuntur Wasi.
	www.nambeiperu.com /datos/cajamarca.htm (1188 words)

	World Music Central - Your connection to World Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Therefore, after arriving to Lima, he founded the group Kuntur Wasi (house of the condor in Quechua languange).
		Kuntur is his first music production that demonstrates original songs, and ethnic fusion.
		Currently, Lucho Quequezana is a musician, composer, college professor, post-production general manager in studio Cabina Libre, movie critic, and investigator of the diverse contemporary expressions that preserve and spread Andean roots.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=2960 (603 words)

	Turismo
		Un dato interesante, subraya Esquerre, es la protección que a lo largo de los años le brindó el pueblo de Kuntur Wasi a sus restos arqueológicos.
		Para llegar al corazón de Kuntur Wasi, ubicado en la cima del cerro La Copa, se requiere de buen físico.
		La más significativa en la historia del lugar es la fase Kuntur Wasi, cuando este centro ceremonial funcionaba activamente, y en el que se adoraba con constancia a dioses como el rayo, el sol, el jaguar, entre otros.
	www.terra.com.pe /turismo/38/38861.html (602 words)

	Musicas Del Mundo - Tu cita con las musicas del mundo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Therefore, after arriving to Lima, he founded the group Kuntur Wasi (house of the condor in Quechua languange).
		Kuntur is his first music production that demonstrates original songs, and ethnic fusion.
		Currently, Lucho Quequezana is a musician, composer, college professor, post-production general manager in studio Cabina Libre, movie critic, and investigator of the diverse contemporary expressions that preserve and spread Andean roots.
	www.musicasdelmundo.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=2960 (595 words)

	Revista Rumbos - Pasión por Cajamarca
		Obviando los circuitos tradicionales, nos sumergimos en la dorada historia del templo de Kuntur Wasi, recorrimos el desconocido cañón de Sangal, dormimos en casas de campesinos, y sondeamos el alma popular, sus creencias, sus pesares, pero también sus anhelos y esperanzas.
		Muy cerca, en la cumbre del cerro La Copa, a 2,300 metros de altura, se levanta Kuntur Wasi ("Casa del Cóndor").
		Sería recién en 1988 que la misión Arqueológica de la Universidad de Tokio, encabezada por el Dr. Yoshio Onuki, empezó a remover las estructuras del Kuntur Wasi y develó muchos de los misterios que guardaba en su interior.
	www.rumbosdelperu.com /turismo_articulos_port2_cajamarca.htm (1813 words)

	Living in Peru » Travel : Passion for Cajamarca
		Avoiding the traditional circuits, we immersed ourselves in the golden history of the temple of Kuntur Wasi, traveled to the little-known Sangal canyon, slept in peasant houses and explored the popular mind – its beliefs and sorrows as well as its hopes and dreams.
		Sincere Doña Rosa, a grandmother who thirty-six years ago moved to Chagmapampa, an old woman who lives from the sale of firewood and is also the local midwife (she has delivered 200 babies), the lady who receives her guests with genuine emotion.
		At the base of Kuntur Wasi a site museum, constructed in 1994, is maintained by public donations.
	www.livinginperu.com /blogs/travel/187 (2252 words)

	Peru Cajamarca
		The church, Santa Catalina catacomb, nowadays it is the cathedral and chapel or shrine.
		In San Pablo, another province in the district is Kuntur Wasi ceremonial center pertinent to Horizonte Temprano; Montealegre, tombs of Cajamarca III - IV period; and the Ventanillas de Tumbadén (pre-Incan burial grounds).
		You can also visit Kuntur Wasi a pre-Incan archeological complex dedicated to the condor culture.
	peru.gotolatin.com /Html/PeruCajamarca/Cajamarca.asp (1633 words)

	Monolitos en ruinas de Kuntur Wasi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		El complejo arqueológico comprende cuatro fases en orden de antigüedad (de mil 100 a 250 años a.C.): Ídolo, Kuntur Wasi, Copa y Sotera.
		En la actualidad –manifestó León– cerca de 150 personas trabajan en la recuperación, restauración y conservación de Kuntur Wasi como parte del proyecto Unesco-Japón, a cargo de arqueólogos japoneses y peruanos, con el apoyo especial de la Universidad Nacional de Saitama (Japón).
		De acuerdo con el funcionario, los trabajos ejecutados en las ruinas, como la restauración de la escalera, los muros de las partes este y oeste de la fachada principal del complejo, así como las plazas del templo, concluirán en setiembre.
	www.elperuano.com.pe /turismo/khuasi.htm (405 words)

	CAJAMARCA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After the destruction, Kuntur Wasi was never used again.
		The archeological mission of the University of Tokyo and local community groups began studying the cultural tradition reflected in Kuntur Wasi in 1988.
		There are permanent exhibitions of the different objects found in the excavations of Kuntur Wasi: gold, semi-precious stones, ceramics, stone utensils, and bones.
	www.peruagency.com /cajamarca-information.en.html (754 words)

	What to see in Cajamarca, Peru ?
		More ahead, approximately by year 700 BC., this ceremonial center was covered with earth and stones, to rise a new ceremonial complex of greater dimension, than counted on a main platform and soon, towards 250 year BC., the complex again was devastated, reason why the establishment moved to a place known like Cerro Blanco.
		In our days, already from 1.988, a group of archaeologists of the University of Tokyo, with the support of communal groups, are studying this important legacy of Kuntur Wasi.
		One of the most surprising findings is constituted by tombs in which were corpses covered with red colorantes together with offerings and diverse objects.
	www.peruhotel.com /english/monuments.php3?idmonument=444&idville=28 (193 words)

	Central and Southern Andes, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		1000 B.C. A ceremonial complex consisting of several platforms, a sunken courtyard, and a series of rooms is constructed at Kuntur Wasi (also known as La Copa for the hill on which it is built), located near the headwaters of the Jequetepeque River in northern Peru.
		The image of a sacred anthropomorphic effigy in clay, about thirty inches high, is deposited in the floor of one of the rooms.
		600 B.C. An important individual is laid to rest at Kuntur Wasi.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/04/sac/ht04sac.htm (1074 words)

	Hoteles Kuntur (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kuntur - Falucho y Chubut - 48-1766 / 98 / 80.
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	www.portal-hoteles.com /hoteles-3/hoteles-kuntur.html (283 words)

	Cusco Hostels and Cusco Hotels Ideal for backpacking in Cusco £1hotels.com One Pound Hotels . com
		Samay Wasi Youth Hostels Cusco, a great place to stay at the magical city of the Inca Empire.
		Although it was beautiful, I decided to move to the artistic area of San Blas.
		Sumac Wasi (Beautiful House in Quechua language) it is an ancient CusqueÃ±a house, adapted to offer a familiar lodging in comfortable and cozy rooms.
	www.onepoundhotels.com /?hostel_location=Cusco (468 words)

	Cumbe Mayo at AllExperts
		Its function appears to be largely aesthetic and religious, intended to make visitors experience the natural rock formations that surround it more intensely, and to meditate on the movement of water through the Andes, rather than to provide actual irrigation.
		It is thought to have been constructed around 1500 B.C., which would make it coeval with sites such as Kuntur Wasi and Chavin de Huantar, major Formative Period sites in South America.
		The name Cumbe Mayo may be derived from a Quechua phrase, kunpi mayu, meaning "well-made water channel," or hunpi mayo, meaning "thin river." There are a number of petroglyphs on the aqueduct and surrounding caverns.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/cu/cumbe_mayo.htm (280 words)

	CARTAS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Los valiosos hallazgos de Kuntur Wasi, la labor de conservación, así como la construcción del hermoso Museo de Sitio, son prueba de que no hay mejor manera de preservar nuestro patrimonio arqueológico que promoviendo simultáneamente el turismo y juntando el trabajo científico con la participación popular.
		Es por eso que el grupo empresarial peruano Yamakawa -conformado por las empresas Yamaservice (con sede en Lima) y Yamacorp (con oficina en Tokio)- acaba de realizar una significativa donación a la Asociación Cultural Kuntur Wasi, formada por los pobladores de la zona a cargo del Museo.
		Esta consta de polos con diseños inspirados en motivos de Kuntur Wasi y hermosas postales que muestran las piezas de oro halladas en el templo.
	www.caretas.com.pe /1378/cartas/cartas.html (2611 words)

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		Because basic analysis of the elements and components should have been done to imitate, imitation of the model itself directs to the results of the study.
		The original of this gorgeous golden crown was buried with the body of a man at the age around sixty in the squatted burial style.
		Because he had four piled golden ornaments, he was supposed to be an important person.
	www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp /real/tokubetsu/Honmono.old/exhi-main/m33.htm (432 words)

	Cajamarca - Definition, explanation
		During the period between 1463 and 1471, Tupac Inca conquered the area and brought Cajamarca into the Tawantinsuyu, or Inca empire, which at the time was still being ruled by Tupac's father Pachacuti.
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