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Sacsaywamán
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The site is composed of three different areas, the most striking being the magnificent
three-tiered
zigzag fortifications
. One stone, incredibly, weighs more than 300 tons. It
was the ninth
inca,
Pachacutec, who envisioned Cuzco in the shape of a puma, with Sac-
saywamán as the head and these 22 zigzagged walls as its teeth.
