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Contents

  • The Journey
    • Becoming The Tomb Raider
    • Difficulty Levels
    • Prologue
    • Chapter 1: Cozumel
      • Cozumel
      • The Flood
    • Chapter 2: Peruvian Jungle
      • Peruvian Jungle
      • Flashback
      • Peruvian Jungle cont.
      • Peruvian Jungle - Challenge Tombs
      • Peruvian Jungle - Crypts
    • Chapter 3: Kuwaq Yaku
      • Kuwaq Yaku
      • Kuwaq Yaku - Side Missions
      • Kuwaq Yaku - Challenge Tombs
      • Kuwaq Yaku - Crypts
      • Kuwaq Yaku - Artifacts
    • Chapter 4: Hidden city
      • Hidden City - Trial of the Eagle
      • Paititi
      • Hidden City - Side Missions
      • Hidden City - Challenge Tombs
      • Hidden City - Crypts
      • Hidden City - Artifacts
      • Belly of the Serpent
      • Head of the Serpent
      • Hidden City
      • Mountain Temple
    • Chapter 5: Cenotes
      • Cenotes
      • Cenotes - Challenge Tombs
    • Chapter 6: Return to Hidden City
      • Return to Hidden City
      • Return to Hidden City - Side Missions
      • Return to Hidden City - Challenge Tombs
      • Return to Hidden City - Crypts
      • Return to Hidden City - Artifacts
    • Chapter 7: Porvenir Oil Fields
      • Porvenir Oil Fields
    • Chapter 8: Mission of San Juan
      • Mission of San Juan
      • Mission of San Juan - Side Missions
      • Mission of San Juan - Challenge Tombs
      • Mission of San Juan - Crypts
      • Mission of San Juan- Artifacts
      • Landslide
    • Chapter 9: City of the Serpent
      • City of the Serpent - Hidden City
      • City of the Serpent - Side Missions
      • City of the Serpent
      • Stop Dominguez
  • Post Game
    • Post Game
  • Skills
    • Introduction
    • Seeker Skills
    • Warrior Skills
    • Scavenger Skills
    • Recommended Skills
  • Inventory
    • Introduction
    • Weapons
    • Gear
    • Outfits
  • Trophies & Achievements
    • Story Progression
    • Story Completion
    • Side Activities
    • Upgrade
    • Collector
    • Combat
    • Other
    • Platinum
  • Walkthrough Maps
    • Prologue-Cozumel Caves
    • Cozumel
    • Peruvian Jungle
    • Kuwaq Yaku
    • Hidden City–Trial of the Eagle
    • Paititi
    • Cenotes
    • Return to Hidden City–Paititi
    • Porvenir Oil Fields
    • Mission of San Juan
    • City of the Serpent
    • City of the Serpent–Hidden City
  • Challenge Tomb and Crypt Maps
    • Tomb - Underworld Gate
    • Tomb - Judge's Gaze
    • Tomb - Howling Caves
    • Tomb - Temple of the Sun
    • Tomb - Path of Battle
    • Tomb - San Cordoba
    • Tomb - Ancient Aqueduct
    • Tomb - Tree of Life
    • Tomb - Thirsty Gods
    • Crypt - Urqu the Scout
    • Crypt - Rimak the Storyteller
    • Crypt - Wayta the Tyrant
    • Crypt - Chuki the Weaver
    • Crypt - Ollanta the Potter
    • Crypt - Qispi the Merchant
    • Crypt - Uturunku the Ferryman

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Guide › The Journey › Chapter 3: Kuwaq Yaku

Kuwaq Yaku - Artifacts

Documents

01 document

Company Town

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku

After leaving Jonah at the bar, head down the steps and make a sharp right toward the bushes. This Document is found on a barrel next to the Base Camp.

02 document

Fuel for the Future

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku

From the Kuwaq Yaku Base Camp, head away from the bar, across the red bridge and toward the green building on the right. The Document will be on a barrel in front of the steps to the green building.

03 document

Family Tree

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku

From Document 02’s location, head inside the green building where this Document is found on a table.

04 document

A Haunting

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku Ruins

From the ruins, pass through the merchant area and turn right. The Document is on a table next to a young boy.

05 document

Water Quality

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku Ruins

Turn away from the table where Document 04 was found and head down the small ramp toward the building with the blue and red porch. This Document is inside on a table.

06 document

Fever Dreams

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku Ruins

Requires Shotgun. From the Kuwaq Yaku Ruins Base Camp, head through the mud pit toward the Hunting Grounds. Trek NE through the Hunting Grounds until you reach a barricaded wall in the side of the rock. Destroy the barricade with a shotgun and find the Document in the corner, near some cloth and a gold vein.

07 document

Trinity’s Offer

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Hunting Grounds

From the Hunting Grounds Base Camp, run back toward the village, keeping to the buildings on the left. Hug the buildings until you’ve essentially made a U-turn on the map and have reached the fishing area. A villager is sitting on a yellow chair in front of a wooden shack. The Document is inside the shack.

08 document

Company Town

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

Found next to the Docks Base Camp.

09 document

End Times

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

From the Docks Base Camp, head to the docks where Lara faced the Trinity soldiers. Before you head down the stairs, the Document is on a table overlooking the docks.

10 document

Site Scrubbed

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

From the Docks Base Camp, head away from the docks and up to the next area with the mud pit. This Document is on a supply crate, next to the Trinity truck.

11 document

Temple Survey

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

From Document 10, head forward into the area where Lara encounters Trinity soldiers. Once the area is clear, Lara can pry open a yellow door with her Climbing Axe and rappel into the Trinity excavation area. Down the first path, this Document is on a table next to a generator.

12 document

Balams

  • Dialect: MAM
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

From Document 11, head onward through the area past the Maya calendar puzzle. In the following chamber are three large animal statues, Mural 09, Monolith 03, and a table with this Document.

13 document

Birthing the Serpent

  • Dialect: MAM
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

From the chamber containing Document 11, move into the next room with the stele that grants the Eagle’s Talon skill. Find this Document behind the stele in an alcove.

14 document

Misdirection

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

From Document 13, jump down into an underwater area filled with piranhas. Once back on land, turn left before proceding through the jungle toward the Trinity combat encounter area and this Document is tucked in the dead end.

15 document

Operation Update

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

After Document 14, Lara encounters two mercenaries. Dispose of the first one using the newly acquired Eagle’s Talon skill. Shortly after this, Lara witnesses a Trinity soldier get attacked by a Yaaxil. The Document is past the soldier’s vehicle to the right, tucked away in the corner next to a Salvage crate and another vehicle trapped under fallen trees.

16 document

Scouring the Globe

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

Proceeding from Document 15, after Lara encounters several Trinity soldiers, she comes upon an area with several bloody maimed and dismembered Trinity corpses. This Document is among their remains.

17 document

Secret Winds

  • Dialect: MAM
  • Nearest Camp: Petroleum Deposit

In the Howling Caves Tomb, after the area where Lara is attacked by wolves, take the rope line up, over the pit of fire. Before ascending the craggy wall, turn left and this Document is on the floor. If fast traveling into the Tomb, head down the craggy wall near the Base Camp.

18 document

Votan

  • Dialect: MAM
  • Nearest Camp: Petroleum Deposit

After ascending the craggy wall next to Document 17, turn to the left once more and this Document lies in the dead end, on the opposite end of the area from the Base Camp.

Relics

01 relic

Burial Doll Replica

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku

From the Base Camp, head across the red bridge away from the bar. Follow the buildings to the left until you come to a fisherman’s boat. Go around the corner to the left and follow the path until you come to a locked door. Pry it open to find the Relic inside.

02 relic

Promotional Toy

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Hunting Grounds

Within the Hunting Grounds there is an upper path that can be reached numerous ways. When coming from the Hunting Grounds Base Camp, this Relic can be found shortly after the abanonded vehicle.

03 relic

Cone Mold

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku

From the Base Camp, head to the right, down the wooden stairs and to the end of the dock. Turn right, and the Relic is underwater, directly beneath the far edge of the dock once it dead ends.

04 relic

Tumi Knife

  • Dialect: N/A
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yuka

In the area where Lara must rescue the workers in the “Blood Cries Out - Invasive Species” side mission, there is a barred gate that must be pried open. This leads to a small cave area where the Relic is found on a table. Note that this area is referred to as “Location Unknown” on the map.

Murals

01 murals

Wayta, the Tyrant

  • Dialect: Quechua
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku

From the Base Camp, head northwest across the water and into the Crypt. After burning down the barricade, the Mural is directly in front of you as you move through the area.

02 mural

Suppay

  • Dialect: Quechua
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku Ruins

From the Base Camp, head past the ruins and through the village until you reach the path leading to the area where the “Blood Cries Out - Invasive Species” side mission takes place. After climbing under the trees, the Mural is to the left, across from the path leading to the muddy path where Lara finds the boy escaping the pillagers.

03 mural

Coniraya

  • Dialect: Quechua
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku Ruins

The Mural is on the left between the Base Camp and the merchant, across from the temple ruins.

04 mural

Pachamama

  • Dialect: Quechua
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku Ruins

From the Base Camp, head into the Hunting Grounds, away from the village. Head straight off the platform and continue straight into the jungle wall where this Mural awaits.

05 mural

Urcuchillay

  • Dialect: Quechua
  • Nearest Camp: Hunting Grounds

This Mural is right across a small body of water from the Base Camp.

06 mural

Inti

  • Dialect: Quechua
  • Nearest Camp: Jungle Cliffs

The Mural is underwater, directly ahead from the Jungle Cliffs Base Camp.

07 mural

Temple of Death

  • Dialect: MAM
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku Ruins

The Mural is straight at the back of the temple ruins from the entrance, up a small staircase.

08 mural

Temple of Life

  • Dialect: MAM
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

From Document 11, continue along the path toward the calendar puzzle. Before entering the massive chamber with the puzzle, this Mural is to the left in a small nook across a small trail of fire.

09 mural

God of Suicides

  • Dialect: MAM
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

In the room after solving the calendar puzzle, along with Monolith 03 and Document 12.

10 mural

Howling Caves

  • Dialect: MAM
  • Nearest Camp: Docks

Inside the Howling Caves Tomb, after Lara falls down and is attacked by the wolves, the Mural is on the left when facing the fiery area with the rope line leading upward.

Monoliths

01 monolith

Monolith 01

  • Dialect: Quechua (Proficient)
  • Nearest Camp: Jungle Cliffs

From the Base Camp, the Monolith is straight across the water, to the right of the village.

02 monolith

Monolith 02

  • Dialect: Quechua (Fluent)
  • Nearest Camp: Kuwaq Yaku Ruins

From the Base Camp, head into the jungle away from the temple. In the middle of the large, open area is an elevated natural platform. The Monolith is on top of it.

03 monolith

Monolith 03

  • Dialect: MAM (Proficient)
  • Nearest Camp: Temple of Life

After the calendar puzzle, in the same room as Mural 09 and Document 12.

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