[2] It was used as a Temple of Inti (god Sun),[3] but became part of a complex of rectangular buildings which mostly still remain today.

The successive would have formed circular cultivation terraces with decreasing width, being the widest of 3.6 m and the narrowest of 3 m. The tower would have ended up in a conic ceiling.

In his chronicle he tells us that in Sacsayhuamán there were three towers, the one in the middle in a cubic form of four or five bodies superimposed one on top of the other.

[10] However, Garcilaso de la Vega contradicts him by stating that the middle tower was circular in shape.

[11] Subsequently, Pedro Pizarro referred to two towers "formed by two very tall cubes", probably he only managed to observe Paucamarca and Sallacmarca because Muyuq Marka had already been destroyed by the Spaniards.