I looked through Google Scholar, Google Book, JSTOR, ProQuest
Dissertations & Theses A&I, all 26 databases of Proquest, Science
Direct, Taylor & Francis journals, and Springer Link and found
nothing of consequence. In contrast, there seems to innumerable
web pages and online files of dubious quality about this site written
by travel agencies, New Agers, pseudoarchaeologists, spiralists,
and so forth.

It appears to be known as the “Doorway of Amaru Meru,” “Amaru Muru,”
or “Puerta de Hayu Marca.” The story is that it was discovered by
mountaineer Jorge Luis Delgado Mamani in early 1990s while rock
climbing in the area. It consists of the face of a tor (rock outcrop) that
has been smoothed to a flat surface roughly forty-three square feet with
a T-shaped alcove some seven feet tall carved into it.

I suspect that there are no inscriptions, petroglyphs, or cultural deposits that
can be associated with it. The likely case is that the archaeological evdience
needed to theorized about what it either is or was is lacking. It is hard to
theorized about the purpose of something when critical data is likely lacking.

The only worthwhile article that I found is:

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious
"doorway." Atlas Obscura. [www.atlasobscura.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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