Quick answer: Ingapirca is Ecuador’s largest Inca site, built over an older Cañari settlement at 3,160 m in Cañar province. It is about 2 to 2.5 hours by bus from Cuenca ($3.50–4 each way). Entry
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Quick answer: Vilcabamba is a small valley town at about 1,600 m, 45 km south of Loja. It became famous in the 1970s for residents said to live past 120, but a 1979 study found
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Quick answer: Shrunken heads, or tsantsas, were real ceremonial objects made by the Shuar and related Jivaroan peoples of Ecuador and Peru from the heads of enemies killed in war. The practice ended in the
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