from FreeMedia Website
Within
the eastern foothills of the Andes in Bolivia there lays in a height
of about 1900 m the ruined site "El Fuerte" (coordinates 18° 10'
30'' South and 63° 49' 10'' West), about 6 km far away from the
small town Samaipata situated at the old secondary road connecting
Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.
The modeled hill raising dominantly above the residential
area demonstrates a unique proof of Pre-Columbian culture at the
American continent.
At the flanks of the rocks, in the north once only, in the south over a length of about 200 m, there are niches of human size carved into the front of the stones showing each the longitudinal wall of a temple.
After the destruction of the Inca temples the Spanish conquerors built a patio house at the ruins as a fortification against the lowland Indians (Chiriguano).
Probably the name "El Fuerte" is coming from this time.
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