Laguna de las Momias also known as Laguna de los Cóndores (Lagoon of the Condors) is an archaeological site located in Leimebamba in the Amazonas Region of Peru

Peru

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, excavated by the archaeologist Federico Kauffmann Doig

Federico Kauffmann Doig

-Early life:Kauffmann Doig was born in Chiclayo, but his childhood and infancy passed in small localities of Cajamarca and Amazonas, particularly in Cocochillo on the margin right hand of the River Marañon...

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It contains a large number of mausoleum

Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...

s that occupy a natural cave of very difficult access, sculpted in the wall of a craggy rock that emerges of a lagoon.

The mausoleums of the Lagoon of the Mummies were still replete with funeral deposits, approximately two hundred. In the mausoleums personages were buried of high rank and. During Inca domination of the region, there were officials from Cuzco, the Inca capital, who resided in Cochabamba.

Each funeral deposit is constituted by a mummy in seated position, wrapped in both flat and decorated textiles.