Kuelap
The fortress of Kuelap, associated with the Chachapoyas culture, consists of massive exterior stone walls containing more than four hundred buildings near Chachapoyas city in Amazonas.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: archaeological site
- Also known as: “Cuelap”, “Cuélap”, “Kuélap”, and “Quebrada Kuelap”
Kuelap
- Categories: archaeological site, fortress, and locality
- Location: Amazonas, Northern Sierra, Peru, South America
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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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: “Kuélap”
- Indonesian: “Kuélap”
- Kotava: “Kuelap”
- Lithuanian: “Kuelapas”
- Portuguese: “Kuelap”
- Quechua: “Kuélap”
- Russian: “Куэлап”
- Slovak: “Kuélap”
- Spanish: “Kuélap”
- Swedish: “Kuelap”
- Swedish: “Kuélap”
- Ukrainian: “Куелап”
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