Tumibamba (Kichwa for "Knife Field") was a former main regional city in the Inca Empire. It was envisioned as the northern capital of the Inca Empire and modeled after Cuzco, the Inca capital.  Archaeologists identified stone building blocks in Ecuador that had an origin in a quarry near Cuzco. The scholars found 450 stones, weighing up to 1,500 lb each, that had been transported more than 990 miiles on Inca roads traversing the Andes. The Incas lacked draft animals and wheeled vehicles so the transport was by manpower only.  The city of Cuenca has been built on top of the old Inca city and whatever ruins remain are largely buried.

Sickle-winged Guan

Black chested Buzzard Eagle

Crested Guan

"The Inca...had a house and a patio full of birds, and monkeys and long-tailed monkeys, and macaws and parrots, and parakeets, and sparrow hawks and turtle doves... and many other birds of the highlands and the yungas...".  Guaman Poma de Alaya.