Chullpa

A burial tower commonly found in the southern Peruvian Andes, especially around Lake Titicaca, just before and after the Inca conquest. They were cylindrical, rectangular, or square and made of stone or adobe. Cruder chullpas are associated with pottery derived from final Tiahuanaco styles, but chullpas made of dressed stone are often of Inca date.

A burial tower commonly found in the southern Peruvian Andes, especially in the Lake Titicaca basin. Of either circular or rectangular plan, chullpa are built from adobe or from a variety of natural or dressed stone. Often associated with the Inca, they were already being built and used in the Late Intermediate Period, especially by the Colla (see Aymara).