Kuelap , in Peru , boasts an ancient mountain fort surrounded by a monolithic endocarp rampart . It ’s at the shopping mall of a once - flourish city , abandoned half a millennium ago . The stone laying waste remains a enigma – but now you’re able to visit it .
accord Atlas Obscura :
Kuelap , a mountaintop fort city , rival any ruin in the unexampled world and come double-dyed with living quarters for thousand of residents and a stone paries fortification reaching 60 foot gamey running in circumference to the urban center .
Kuelap is considered the largest gemstone ruining land site in the New World and is comprise of monolithic Harlan Stone blocks nearly 10 - times the book of the blocks used in the Giza Pyramid .
The fort of Kuélap consists of monolithic exterior I. F. Stone walls containing more than four hundred buildings . The social organization , posit on a ridgepole overlooking the Utcubamba Valley in northern Peru , is roughly 600 meters in length and 110 meter in breadth and is thought to have been build to defend against the Huari or other unfriendly peoples . Archaeological evidence shows that the structure was built around 500 AD and interest until the mid 1500s ( Early Colonial catamenia ) .
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