Ayawayq'u ( Quechua ''aya'' corpse, ''wayq'u'' valley,Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) "corpse valley", also ''Ayawayq'o''), also known as Yukay ''(Yucay)'' or Kapillayuq ''(Capillayoq)'' is an archaeological site with rock paintings in

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. It is situated in the

Cusco Region Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de D ...

Urubamba Province Urubamba Province is one of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru. Geography The province is bounded to the north by the La Convención Province, to the east by the Calca Province, to the south by the Cusco Pr ...

Yucay District Yucay District is one of seven districts of the province Urubamba in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) ("National Institute of Statistics and Informatics") is ...

.Rainer Hostnig, Pinturas rupestres de posible afiliación Inca en el departamento del Cusco, SIARB. Cusco, Peru (in Spanish) The site lies at a height of about on the southern side of the mountain Kapillayuq. At a distance of about from Ayawayq'u there is another site with rock art named T'uqu T'uquyuq.

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