Tambo Colorado remains of original colours on adobe walls
Tambo Colorado overview
Tambo Colorado is a well-preserved Incaadobe site on the coast of Peru. It is located on the road from Lima to Ayacucho near the town of Pisco. For other meanings of Inca, see Inca (disambiguation). ... Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. ... Pisco is a city in Peru. ...
It is believed to have been used by the Incas as an administrative and control site on the main road from the coast to the highlands.
Some original colours (red, white and yellow) can still be seen on some of the walls.
TamboColorado is the best preserved monument from the Inca times on the Peruvian coast.
TamboColorado is a name consisting of two words in different languages; "Tampu", a Quechua word that means resting place, and Colorado, in Spanish, for the red color that decorated its walls and that can be clearly seen still to date.
But it is not only the red color of its walls what distinguishes TamboColorado, but also its typical Inca architecture matching the area, since instead of large stones, like those used in the Inca buildings in the highlands, clay was also used very skillfully by the ancient Peruvians.
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