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City of the Dead
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CITY OF THE DEAD
City perched half way on a Cliff, one kilometer deep. This Chipuric necropolis was first brought to public attention by Gene Savoy in the middle 1960’s. You can see a couple of waterfalls. The main ruins was a village of funeral houses, stretched along a wide, artificially built-up ledge of perhaps one hundred and fifty meters in length. The houses themselves built of stone walls, plastered over with mud. Each house have a full height doorway, with two interior niches on each side. Each house had one or two rectangular niches at foot level next to the rock wall. The interior walls of the northernmost house were decorated with elaborate indented designs in the form of abstract anthropomorphic symbols. The southernmost house is the serpent design on a mud bench built against the rock wall. There were two or three more of these strange symbolic decorations found in the other houses. In photographs, these designs appear to be painted on the walls, when in fact they were insect by several centimeters into the mud and masonry. There is nothing like them elsewhere in the Chachapoyas.
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