page_title: Tambo Colorado
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Tambo Colorado / Location
caption_attribution_description: Reconstruction of painting on walls of Room 42, Tambo Colorado, adapted from a photo-textured laser scan. Thanks to favorable environmental conditions, many walls at Tambo Colorado, both internal and external, retain enough residual colored paint to accurately reconstruct what the original wall painting would have been like. Color here was often applied in horizontal strips of red, black, white, and yellow ochre atop stucco, and variation in color would accentuate architectural features such as niches. Room 42, the third court encountered from the entrance of the Northern Palace structure, contains niches of two recesses and distinct painting.
context_page_description: Tambo Colorado is a well-preserved Inca adobe complex near the coast of Peru, also known under the Quechua names Puka Tampu, Pukallaqta or Pukawasi.
context_section_description: The site is located just inland from the south coast of Perú in the Pisco River Valley about 40 km along the highway to Ayacucho known as the Via de los Libertadores, close to the town of Pisco. Initial reports from the 2007 Peru earthquake reported no major damage to the site.
  A High resolution GPS point was shot at the site datum on 2 Aug 2009 using an L2 GPS (Trimble GeoXH with Zephyr).
  The post-processed position is as follows:
  Northings: 8484705.386 m (± 0.8 m)
  Eastings: 410335.884 m (± 0.8 m)
  Altitude (MSL): 484.849 m (±1.8 m)
  UTM Zone 18 South, Datum WGS 1984.
caption: Digital reconstruction of original Inca painting on Room 42 wall, Tambo Colorado. Data is derived from a CyArk/University of California research partnership.
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