Chawaytiri (Hispanicized ''Chahuaytire, Chahuaytiri'') is an archaeological site with rock paintings in

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. It is situated in the

Cusco Region Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth-largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de Dios and Puno ...

, Calca Province, Pisac District, near the village Chawaytiri.Rainer Hostnig, Pinturas rupestres de posible afiliación Inca en el departamento del Cusco, SIARB. Cusco, Peru The principal section with paintings predominantly showing llamas is named ''Llamachayuq Qaqa'' (Quechua ''llama''

llama The llama (; or ) (''Lama glama'') is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a List of meat animals, meat and pack animal by Inca empire, Andean cultures since the pre-Columbian era. Llamas are social animals and live with ...

, ''-cha'', ''-yuq''

suffix In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can ca ...

es, ''qaqa'' rock,Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) "a rock with a little llama") or Chawaytiri. It lies on the slope of the mountain Muruwiksa ''(Moro-Wicsa, Morowiqsa, Morro Huicsa)''. The other sections are named Wamanwachana, Kawituyuq ''(Cahuituyoc)'', P'allqapata ''(Pallcapata)'', Musuqllaqta ''(Mosoqllaqta)'', Misaqaqa and Qaqa.

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