In Amazonas, the mayor of the district of Tingo together with a group of citizens from the Kuélap annex protested today demanding prompt attention to the archaeological complex of Kuélap after the collapses reported in the area of the walls of the aforementioned fortress, located in the province of Luya .
“The purpose of bringing the population together is to make a claim regarding the current situation in Kuelap. A lot of entrapment, a lot of bureaucracy. Kuelap is falling apart and so far no concrete solution has been taken”, he pointed out for Canal N.
Annex Residents Kuelap -who awaited the arrival of Minister Alejandro Salas at the archaeological complex- arrived carrying banners with the following messages: “Urgent and immediate solution for Kuélap!”, “Income from Kuélap stay in Kuélap!”, “Kuélap in danger” , “Ministry of Culture, we want a solution” and “Autonomy now, Ministry of Culture for the Amazon region!”.
“A Kuelap they declared it an emergency, however, the Ministry of Culture has not designated the budget to mitigate the emergency because that is what the government decrees. The budget has been designated to investment projects. The main entrance [a la fortaleza] it is a national disgrace. We ask for speed in the projects and concrete, and that they be done, “added the mayor.
Minister suspends visit to Kuelap due to bad weather
sources of Ministry of Culture (Mincul) informed this newspaper that the minister Alejandro Salas will no longer be able to arrive in Kuelap this Tuesday due to bad weather.
They explained that earlier he was going from Jaén to Tingo by helicopter, but had to land in Bagua for Bad weather. There they informed him that for today the weather conditions were not going to improve.
For this reason, the minister and the entourage will remain in Bagua Chica and tomorrow they will try again to reach Kuelap.
What happened in Kuelap?
The Decentralized Directorate of Culture of Amazonas reported that a perimeter wall of the Kuelap archaeological complex collapsed this Sunday at 5:10 pm, so he arranged the closure of access to the site for two days.
Through a publication on its Facebook page, the Amazonas DDC explained that tourists will not be able to enter Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 Aprilin order to carry out the “pertinent evaluations”.
On February 13, the Ministry of Culture resolved declare the archaeological site of Kuelap an emergencylocated in the province of Luya, department of Amazonas.
