Discovering the stone city of cloud people

Archaeologists have found an underground city in the cliffs of the Andes, due to the mysterious Chachapoya tribe known as the "cloud" built in Peru.

Chachapoya houses are carved into cliffs.Photo: Telegraph.

The city covers an area of ​​about 12 hectares and is located on the slopes of Pachallama in Jamalca, in the Utcubamba province of Peru. The stone houses in the north of this Amazon forest are more than 1,000 years old and hidden deep in the cliff, preserved almost intact. They are made by the Chachapoya tribe, also known as "cloud people", created.

Tropical forests have covered much of the city, but adventurers still see walls of many houses and paintings on a large cliff. Benedicto Pérez Goicochea, a member of the expedition, thinks that the remote geographic location may be the factor that helps the rock city not be visited by smelly people. Archaeologists found many pottery and some cemeteries still intact.

Before the archaeological team arrived, some local residents discovered it while crossing the forest to search for a waterfall. They saw a small road leading to a place full of flowers and trees at an altitude of about 500 meters above the ground. There is also a waterfall there.

Earlier, archaeologists also found the Kulep fortress of the "cloud" in Utcubamba province. This building is older and wider than the famous mountain city of Machu Pichu of the Incas.

So far the scientific community knows very little about the Chachapoya tribe, except that they submitted to the Incas in 1475. When the Spaniards arrived in Peru in 1535, the Chachapoya people allied with Spain to fight the Incas.

Many Spanish documents describe that the "cloudy" warriors are very strong, friendly and aggressive. They have a tradition of embalming dead soldiers. After the Inca civilization collapsed, the Chachapoya people were also annihilated by smallpox and many other diseases brought by Europeans.

Chachapoya women are admired by the Incas because they are tall and have white skin. "Chachapoya is one of the most beautiful and white tribes I have ever known in the study of indigenous tribes in the Americas. Not only good looks, Chachapoya women are also very tender and hardworking. but after being subdued by the Incas, many Chachapoya women were forced to be the Inca's men or taken to the Sun temple to be a sacrifice, 'said Benedicto Pérez Goicochea.