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According to the evidences, all the constructions of Ingapirca had cut stone walls, completed in their high part with adobe; its ceiling to two waters with a strong fall (50 - 55º), had a structure of wood, reed, moored with aloe fiber and its cover with desert straw.

The most important ruins of the residential enclosures and palaces had to be plastered, while the warehouses that did not demand esthetic major could have the seen stone. The elliptical temple of Ingapirca, by its high religious hierarchy, to the being the temple of the sun, demonstrates the use of sillares backings to the purest imperial style cuzqueño. The walls of all the palaces were adorned with hornacinas and trapezial doors, testimonies that still are in one of the enclosures of the Akllahuasi and the temple of Ingapirca.

Some of the most outstanding zones are:

Castle of Ingapirca
Located at the top of a hill she is one of the most important samples of the architecture Inca. This construction dates from the time of Able Huayna. It includes/understands an ellipse, aposentos, patios, warehouses and baths. One thinks that Ingapirca was not only one strength, but also an administrative and religious center because there the ceremonies were realized to adore to the sun.

Portable altar
It is the center of the archaeological complex and their walls less than have a maximum elevation of four meters. Its structure is extremely solid and of elliptical form. As much the door as the hornacinas located in the walls, has trapezial form, and the carved stone blocks are juxtaposed without needing no type of amalgam.

Aposentos
Located to a side of the portable altar, probably the priests and their rites were prepared for, because one of the walls owns a great amount of hornacinas.

Archaeological museum
Next to the archaeological zone, the Museum exhibits an explanatory scale model of Ingapirca and an important sample of diverse found objects durantes the excavations that demonstrate to the presence of the Cañari cultures and Inca. It is possible to be appreciated samples of textilería, ceramic and jewels.