Tumebamba
An Inca royal center in the land of the Cañari people, on the site of present-day Cuenca, Ecuador. Cieza de León saw it in the late 1540s, after it had been sacked in the Inca civil war and stripped by the Spaniards.
Today: Cuenca, Ecuador
Inca Storehouses and the Palaces of Tumebamba
Pedro de Cieza de León, Chronicle of Peru, part 1 (Seville, 1553), chapter 44: the storehouses and palaces of Tumebamba · printed at Seville, 1553 (Cieza passed through Tumebamba in the late 1540s)
Estos aposentos famosos de Tumebamba, que (como tengo dicho) están situados en la provincia de los Cañares, eran de los soberbios y ricos que hubo en todo el Perú, y adonde habia los mayores y mas primos edificios. Y cierto ninguna cosa dicen destos aposentos los indios, que no vemos que fuese mas, por las reliquias que dellos han quedado. Los aposentos de Tumebamba están asentados á las juntas de dos pequeños rios en un llano de campaña que terná mas de doce leguas de contorno. Es tierra fria y bastecida de mucha caza de venados, conejos, perdices, tórtolas y otras aves.
These famous lodgings of Tumebamba are in the province of the Cañares, as I have said. They were among the most magnificent and richest in all Peru, with the largest and finest buildings. Indeed, the Indians say nothing about them that the remains do not show to have been true, and more. The lodgings of Tumebamba stand where two small rivers meet, on an open plain more than twelve leagues around. It is cold country, with plenty of game: deer, rabbits, partridges, turtledoves, and other birds.