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Carajía or Karijia is an archaeological site in the Utcubamba Valley, located 48 km northeast of the city of Chachapoyas, Peru in Luya Province, Amazonas Region, where eight mummies were discovered on the cliffside of a mountain in 1983.The (originally eight) now seven sarcophagi are large statues painted white with red bird like color decorations special sacred symbols.The most prominent feature of the face are its large chins.
They belong to the Chachapoya culture which date between A.D 1100 and 1300. They are known to the locals as the wisemen. Inside the sarcophagi is a seated skeleton with a few pottery pots and other presious belongings. The sarcophagi are made of large reeds and mud plaster then sculpted into large statues of sacred giant-like men. In an earthquake that happened in the 1970s, one of the statues fell off the cliff.

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