The towering vista at Choquequirao’s Llamas Sector plunges thousands of feet down a canyon carved by the Apurímac River in the Peruvian Andes west of Cusco. The mysterious Inca city was built along a trail system that connected several of the empire’s mountain strongholds to the nearby Amazon jungle. Click to read my travel guide “How to Take a Self-Guided Tour of Choquequirao,”, click to view my high-resolution photo gallery, or click to read my feature article “Choquequirao: The Last Stand of the Inca” for the story of how the Neo-Inca state of Vilcabamba resisted Spanish colonialism in the 16th century.
