Karajia

Karajía is a burial place of the Chachapoya, set high on a cliff above the Utcubamba country. A row of tall human-shaped sarcophagi stands on a narrow ledge, their modeled faces and painted bodies looking out over the valley. Each held an individual burial. Dating to the fifteenth century, they preserve a distinctive funerary tradition of the mountain peoples who lived here before the Spanish conquest.