Puka Tampu

Puka Tampu, known as Tambo Colorado, is an Inca administrative complex in the Pisco valley of southern Peru. Its adobe walls surround a large trapezoidal plaza, rooms and ceremonial spaces beside the road linking the coast with the Andes. Red, yellow and white painted bands once decorated the plastered walls, giving the site its name. Built in the fifteenth century, the complex shows how Inca builders adapted imperial forms to the materials and climate of the coastal desert.