Kuelap

The fortress of Kuelap, associated with the Chachapoyas culture, consists of massive exterior stone walls containing more than four hundred buildings near city in Amazonas.
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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: archaeological site
  • Also known as: Kuélap” and “Quebrada Kuelap

Kuelap

Latitude
-6.4231° or 6° 25′ 23″ south
Longitude
-77.9107° or 77° 54′ 39″ west
Elevation
1,804 metres (5,919 feet)
Open location code
6754H3GQ+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5615974541
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
6383294
Wiki­data ID
Q1361820
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Kuelap” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Kuelap
  • Azerbaijani: Kuelap
  • Belarusian: Куэлап
  • Bengali: কুয়েলাপ দুর্গ
  • Catalan: Kuélap
  • Chinese: 奎拉普
  • Chinese: 魁拉
  • Czech: Kuélap
  • Dutch: Kuelap
  • Egyptian Arabic: كويلاب
  • Esperanto: Kuelap
  • French: Kuelap
  • French: Kuélap
  • Georgian: კუელაპი
  • German: Kuelap
  • Hebrew: קואלאפ
  • Hungarian: Cuelap
  • Hungarian: Cuélap
  • Hungarian: Kuelap
  • Hungarian: Kuélap
  • Indonesian: Kuélap
  • Kotava: Kuelap
  • Lithuanian: Kuelapas
  • Portuguese: Kuelap
  • Quechua: Kuélap
  • Russian: Куэлап
  • Slovak: Kuélap
  • Spanish: Kuelap
  • Spanish: Kuélap
  • Swedish: Kuelap
  • Swedish: Kuélap
  • Ukrainian: Куелап

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kuelap”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.