Rumiwasi ( Quechua ''rumi'' stone, ''wasi'' house,Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe, Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, Quechua – Castellano, Castellano – Quechua (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) "stone house", hispanicized spelling ''Rumihuasi'') or Phaqchayuq (Quechua ''phaqcha'' waterfall, ''-yuq'' a

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 ...

to indicate ownership, "the one with a waterfall", hispanicized ''Phaqchayoc'') is an archaeological site in

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. It is located in the

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, Cusco Province, San Sebastián District, north of the central square of San Sebastián.mincetur.gob.pe
"Sitio arqueológico de Rumiwasi o Phaqchayoc", retrieved on January 24, 2014

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