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Quarries Area

 

Machu Picchu, Perú

This quarry area shows a variety of carved or semi-carved rocks, with cuts for construction, among which channels, inlets and outflows, half-cut rocks and ramps to move them stand out. The enclosures in this area are directly related to the suppliers of construction material for the different areas or groups of the city of Machu Picchu.

Let us remember that originally the entire area where the city of Machu Picchu was established was a large quarry, which geologists call “the chaos of granite”, the same ones that were transformed into lithic polyhedrons and transported to the work, are of different qualities, where they received the finishes and the final carving and polishing would be done after being placed on the wall, for example in the temple of the animals.

As a curious detail, I must point out that there is a stone with fissures or cracks made to extract new stones during some of the restorations. Some poorly informed guides often show this detail, indicating that wet logs were placed in the groove and when they expanded they produced the fracture. Such an explanation is only possible in the imagination.

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