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Meaning of chullpa




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

chullpa
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It means crypt, tomb, mausoleum. It is an old Aymara funerary tower. Generally cylindrical and its dome was a semisphere (vaulted). They were built for high-ranking characters.

  



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