El Morro del Tulcán (lit. Tulcán Hill) is an Indigenous

pyramid A pyramid (from el, πυραμίς ') is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single step at the top, making the shape roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilat ...

in Popayán, Colombia. Research suggests that the individuals buried there came from the very top of the social classes of their society. The pyramid was constructed in the pre-Columbian period, approximately between ; the period which is now known as "the Delayed Cacicales Societies". On this pyramid a statue dedicated to the

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Sebastián de Belalcázar existed from 1937 to 2020. El Morro del Tulcán is the main archaeological site of Popayán.

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