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This site is located on a steep mountain right at the juncture of the Bermejo and Cosanga rivers. Agricultural terraces and others possibly for housing are visible throughout the terrain of the Hacienda Bermejo. We excavated five 1x1 m tests here in October of 2002. The side of the mountain towards the Bermejo River has the largest concentration of agricultural terraces observed during the survey. Most survey collections (both shovel probes and superficial collections) consistently yielded an unusually high number of sherds, of which the majority were Cosanga. The site elevation is between 2,000 and 2,050 m above sea level. There are numerous worked stones spread throughout this area, especially towards the north drop-off, and we were told that the owner of the site thinks that they once formed some kind of a construction, but that the cows had destroyed it. This site was chosen to collect soil samples for the analysis of botanical remains of the Late Period.