From the strength of Choquequirao, in the zone of Vilcabamba, the Incas of the Manco dynasty resisted by 36 years (1536-1572) to the Spanish conquerors, who never managed to expel them from her.
The construction of Choquequirao is work of the successors of the Inca Pachacutec, Tupac Inca Yupanqui (1 471-1 493) or Able Wayna (1 493-1 527). In the place domestic and ceremonial ceramics of the classic style cuzqueño, and also of other own ones of the population was used that moved to construct and to populate the site with permanent way, probably agriculturists experienced in constructing and operating agricultural platforms.
Located to 3050 msnm, in the limit with the department of Apurímac, the archaeological set of Choquequirao was not constructed like place of pa. To arrive at him demand two days of disciplined march, long compensated by the beauty of the landscape that accompanies to the traveller from the beginning of the route.
The passage begins in Cachora (2800 msnm), a small town of the department of Apurímac at which it is arrived, having started off of Cuzco, after four hours of good highway (145 km asphalted and 10 km affirmed). It is there where it is contacted with the carriers of mules, who in addition do the times of guides. A local family offers lodging and the unique telephone of the locality. Approximately 40% of the ceremonial center Inca of Choquequirao are free of vegetation. The remaining area is formed by a complex system of platforms constructed in slopes extremely raised. Recently impressive stairs of 180 platforms that, descending from one from flanks of the ceremonial center, arrive to the river, in that have been located is possible to swim.
Choquequirao was possibly one of the control posts from enter the region of Vilcabamba, and, like so, an administrative nucleus with political, social and economic functions. In his urban conception it followed the symbolic landlords of the imperial capital with the places of cult dedicated to the Sun, to the ancestors, to the Earth, the water and other divinities; real residences, houses of administrators and craftsmen; deposits, great buildings for dormitories or kallancas and agricultural platforms of the Inca and the town.
The ceremonial area extends throughout 700 meters, perceiving itself a difference of level of up to 65 meters between the main place and the elevated parts but.