🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Lepsius Mound Outlier — Chancay (Lima)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Lepsius Mound Outlier in Chancay, Peru is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age culture.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Pashash — Recuay Capital
Early Intermediate (400 BCE–600 CE) · Recuay (Pashash)
Pashash — Recuay Capital in Ancash Region, Peru is a Early Intermediate (400 BCE–600 CE) ancient-city attributed to Recuay (Pashash).
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Vilcabamba — Espíritu Pampa (Last Capital of the Inca)
Wari → Inca → Neo-Inca 1200–1572 CE · Neo-Inca (Manco Inca)
Last Neo-Inca capital 1536–1572, 12 ha jungle city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Kotosh Archaeological Site — Temple of the Crossed Hands
Late Archaic–Initial 2300–1200 BCE · Kotosh–Mito tradition
Crossed Hands temple 1800 BCE, 10 superimposed Mito temples.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Paramonga Fortress
Chimú – Late Intermediate 1200–1532 CE · Chimú → Inca
Chimú hill-fort four walls, Inca tambo after 1470.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 319
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 319 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 355
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 355 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 30
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 30 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 37
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 37 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 50
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 50 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 218
Moche (100-800 CE) · Moche
Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 218 in La Libertad, Peru is a Moche (100-800 CE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 567
Moche (100-800 CE) · Moche
Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 567 in La Libertad, Peru is a Moche (100-800 CE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 591
Moche (100-800 CE) · Moche
Huaca de la Luna Precinct Sector 591 in La Libertad, Peru is a Moche (100-800 CE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 560
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 560 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 67
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 67 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan
Chimú · Chimú (Chanchan)
Largest adobe city in world: capital of Chimú Kingdom (850–1470) covering 20 km² with 10 walled citadels (ciudadelas) with friezes of pelicans and lattice, reservoirs, adobe walls.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Cajamarquilla
The Cajamarquilla archaeological site is located 25 km inland from the coastal city of Lima, Peru; in the Jicamarca Valley, 6 km north of the Rímac River.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Gran Saposoa
Gran Saposoa is the name given to a series of ruins in the Andean cloud forests of the Amazonas region of Peru by American explorer Gene Savoy.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu (also known as Camino Inca or Camino Inka) is a hiking trail in Peru that terminates at Machu Picchu.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Cerro Pátapo ruins
The Cerro Pátapo ruins or Northern Wari ruins are the remains of a pre-Columbian city near the site of present-day Chiclayo, Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Intihuatana, Urubamba
Intihuatana (possibly from in the Quechua spelling Inti Watana or Intiwatana), at the archaeological site of Machu Picchu, is a notable ritual stone associated with the astronomic clock or calendar…
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Puquios de la Achirana
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1450 CE · Inca (Quechua) imperial engineers
12 Inca puquios gallery aqueducts (17 km, 1450 CE) of the Achirana canal, Inca ashlar aqueduct feeding Ica Valley.