The building itself is peculiar as some of the stones found there are huge and make you wonder how that managed to convey. The stones were fitted with a precision almost unimaginable.
It is inexplicable to decipher how the Incas were able to cut the stones with such mastery that does not fit even a knife blade between two piedras.Hay figures designed in the stones and rocks, entrances to underground tunnels or Chicano, amphitheaters, ritual construction, probably related to the worship of water.
Its main feature is the way it was built, have large blocks of stone, reaching 9 meters higher. It asserts that its construction took approximately 50 years beginning in the Inca period Yupanqui.Fue hombres.Dentro built for 20,000 of the fortress had large stores of food and weapons, and distribution channels for the throne of the Inca water.The located next to the fortress, a large rock was cut and polished in several levels, where the sovereign presided over the festivities, celebrations, parades and gave orders.
Today few traces of the three tiered walls built of limestone of sedimentary origin and formation fasilífera.

The towers: There were three towers located on top of the fortress, Mayocmarca, Sallacmarca and Paucarmaca.El first had a cylindrical shape with a height of about four floors with a diameter of about 22 metros.Se was in the middle. The second was a cuadrangular.Desde there was visible throughout the city of Cusco.El third, also a square, was located at the other end of Sallacmarca.

Form: The area where this strength corresponds to the head of the sacred animal, and one of the translations that this word is precisely puma.Pachacutec head Inca Yupanqui, the ninth Inca, redesigned the city and gave way lying puma (puma is the guardian of earthly things.)

Height: Sacsayhuaman is 3,700 meters above sea level.

Space: The space covered by its buildings is particularly great, what is striking are the three stone walls that suggest the figure of the fortress.

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