Purunllacta or Purum Llacta (possibly from

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 ...

''purum, purun'' savage, wild / wasteland, ''llaqta'' place (village, town, city, country, nation)Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) 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 situated in the

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, Chachapoyas Province, Soloco District, southwest and near the archaeological site of Purum Llaqta of the

Cheto District Cheto is a district of the Chachapoyas Province in the Amazonas Region 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 ...

.Olivier Fabre, Jean Loup Guyot, Rodolfo Salas Gismondi, Manuel Malaver Pizarro, Ermanno Maniero, Los chachapoya de la región de Soloco: Chaquil, del sitio de hábitat a la cueva funeraria, Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines / 2008, 37 (2): 271-292. Retrieved on March 29, 2014

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Archaeological sites in Peru Archaeological sites in Amazonas Region {{AmazonasPE-geo-stub

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