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  • As this place did not appear able to sustain them, being barren, they advanced to another place called Tampu-quiro, where Mama Occlo begot a son named Sinchi

    History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

  • Within a decade of Bingham's death in 1956, scholars were showing that Machu Picchu was neither Vilcabamba nor Tampu Tocco.

    In a Lost City, Finding Yourself Gerard Helferich 2011

  • Then, as if that claim weren't grand enough for the spectacular setting, he also declared it to be Tampu Tocco, the legendary birthplace of Inca civilization.

    In a Lost City, Finding Yourself Gerard Helferich 2011

  • Follow the small, hard-to-see signs to Tampu, three miles.

    Walking the walk, talking the talk - Colima part 2 - the Sierras 2007

  • Follow the small, hard-to-see signs to Tampu, three miles.

    Tampumachay? 2007

  • Follow the small, hard-to-see signs to Tampu, three miles.

    Walking the walk, talking the talk - Colima part 2 - the Sierras 2007

  • Follow the small, hard-to-see signs to Tampu, three miles.

    Tampumachay? 2007

  • Follow the small, hard-to-see signs to Tampu, three miles.

    Tampumachay? 2007

  • Having celebrated the natal feasts of the infant, they set out in search of fertile land, and came to another place called Pallata, which is almost contiguous to Tampu-quiro, and there they remained for some years.

    History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

  • Tampu-tocco or Paccari-tampu, names for the same thing, and entered the cave whence it is held for certain that Manco Ccapac and his brethren came when they marched to Cuzco for the first time, as has already been narrated.

    History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

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