Inti Watana, Intiwatana (

Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...

, hispanicized spelling ''Intihuatana'') or Pumaqucha (Quechua ''puma''

cougar The cougar (''Puma concolor'') (, ''Help:Pronunciation respelling key, KOO-gər''), also called puma, mountain lion, catamount and panther is a large small cat native to the Americas. It inhabits North America, North, Central America, Cent ...

, puma, ''qucha'' lake, "puma lake", hispanicized spellings ''Pomaccocha, Pomacocha, Pumacocha'') is an archaeological site in

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. It is located in the

Ayacucho Region Ayacucho (), known as Huamanga from its creation in 1822 until 1825, is a department and region of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country. Its capital is the city of Ayacucho. The region was one of the hardest hit in the 1980 ...

, Vilcas Huamán Province, Vischongo District, at the lake Pumaqucha ().mincetur.gob.pe
"Complejo Arqueológico De Pumacocha O Intiwatana", retrieved on February 9, 2014escale.minedu.gob.pe - Map of the Vilcas Huamán Province (Ayacucho Region) The site was declared a National Cultural Heritage of Peru by ''Resolución Directoral'' No. Nº 751/INC on July 27, 2001 .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Inti Watana, Ayacucho Archaeological sites in Peru Archaeological sites in the Department of Ayacucho

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