THE MONUMENTAL RUINS OF KUELAP, CHACHAPOYAS, PERU

Kuelap's Fortress is an ancient walled city, the largest stone complex in South America, located at 3000 m. above sea level, higher than the site of Machu Picchu.
The huge stone complex is fairly isolated, situated on a mountain ridge about 3000 m high, in the Amazonian Region with a landscape of steep river gorges and mountains, overlooking the Utcubamba Valley, far from the coast region, in Chacahpoyas, Northern Peru. The fortress consists of a walled city, with massive exterior stones surrounding more than 450 buildings. It is 600m in length, 110 m in width, and its walls rise up to 19 m height.
The high walls that cover the outer surfaces of the platform, and the tightness of the access to the citadel in its final stretch, suggest that the monumental citadel was a kind of refuge center in the event of natural disasters. Its sacred religious function is shown through the number of sacred rivers running underground and the sacred composition of its waters.
It is said that the piezoelectric calcite content in the chemical composition of it had a resonating effect in the pineal gland, producing a collective and unifying effect in the synchronization of the universal electromagnetic field and the earth electromagnetic field.
The superior or principal official that were heads of the clans that belonged to the Chachapoya community, responsible to the care of the Amazonian Region, were invested with religious authority, powerful enough to act as mediators between the supernatural sphere and the mortal realm. They were responsible for making sure that the spirit world blessed the mortal one with prosperity, and were held accountable if disaster strike. They were the tax collectors in that specific sense.
A powerful aristocracy lived inside the complex whose primary mission was to provide religious leadership and to administer food production.
Access to the ruins of Kuelap at the summit of the hill that rises on the left bank of the Utcubamba, is gained via El Tingo, a town approximately 1800 m above sea level near the bank of the river. A horse trail also winds along the left bank of the Tingo River and leads eventually up to Marcapampa, a small level upland near the site.