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The site is seen as a Tiwanaky site and it was inhabited from 1000 BC to 1100 AD. It has a huge temple which has three building episodes. It has many tombes within.

The place was first described by Padre Pedro Marabini in the 20th century. Since 1990 their has been research at Chiripa by the Taraco Archeological Project from the University Of California at Berkeley . This investigation is led by Christine Hastorf.


TRIVIA


  • The site was a example for a 2002 dissertation by Matthew Bandy

  • Local landowners say that the graves are arranged in a ring. The same structure which is found on the Chen Chen site in Moquegua



ETYMOLOGY


The word chiripa is a spanish noun which means fluke