

The Chachapoyas were a pre-Hispanic culture that developed in the Amazonian Andes of Peru. Historians call them “Tree People”, others "Warriors of The Clouds” because they were furious warriors that fought and flourished at great heights, at the edge of the Amazon rainforest. The Chachapoyas cultivated a special relationship with their dead, using mortuary rituals and sarcophagi called "purunmachu" crafted at the face of the Andes mountain. Some still hope to unveil the mysteries of the relation...




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