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938 places in the atlas, 25 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (Nazca 5–7, 200 BCE–600 CE) · Lucanas Nazca–Huarpa canyon groups
24 western gorge-head figures at Jaccra 3650 m: arms-aloft giants + spiral and 110 m gorge-arrow to springs.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon (c.600–800 CE) Wari Empire · Wari (Huari)
Conchopata, 9 km northeast of Ayacucho city at 2,800 m, is the celebrated Wari satellite city where William Isbell and Anita Cook uncovered the empire's face-neck jar cult.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon (Wari expansion) with Early Horizon pathways · Wari / Majes rock-art / Sihuas valley agro-pastoral
Large hill-figure and circle geoglyph field on the inter-valley pampa between Río Majes and Río Sihuas (1,450 m), centered near Quilcapampa Wari town (Middle Horizon). Jennings et al.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Intermediate – Late Horizon (c.900–1532 CE) Ychsma – Inca · Ychsma – Inca (Ichma)
Huaycán de Pariachi dominates an alluvial wedge above the lower Rímac at Ate, east Lima. As the largest Ychsma center on the central coast before Pachacamac's Inca remodelling, its monumental core…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Wari-Chuquibamba · Wari-influenced Chuquibamba/Majes
60+ volcanic-pavement geoglyphs (600-1200 CE) beside Toro Muerto petroglyphs, Majes Valley ritual plateau.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tomb
Late Intermediate (c.1200–1470 CE) Chancay · Chancay
Cerro Trinidad is the classic Chancay funerary ridge cemetery in the lower Chancay Valley near Chancay port, Lima.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Late Horizon (Inca Imperial) · Inca (Quechua)
High-altitude (3,400 m) radial sacred geography of the Inca capital: 41 ceque lines radiating from Coricancha/Qorikancha to huaca shrines bounding Sacsayhuamán pampa and Chinchaysuyo suyu.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Preceramic – Initial Period (c.3500–1200 BCE) Andes · Norte Chico – Chavín-related Late Preceramic
Buena Vista in the middle Chillón Valley is a Late Preceramic fox-temple pyramid famous for its precocious solstice astronomy.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Early Intermediate – Late Horizon (c.200 BCE–1532 CE, Wari peak 600–1000 CE) · Wari – Qotakalli – Inca
Choqepukio occupies the flat valley floor at the Huacarpay lagunas gateway to the Cusco Basin, 21 km southeast of Cusco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Horizon (c.1430–1532 CE) Inca · Inca
Inkilltambo is a large Inca terrace-estate 2 km east of central Cusco on the Watanay's right bank at 3,520 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (Topará / Early Nazca) · Paracas-Topará / Early Nazca
30+ trapezoid and anthropomorph lines (200 BCE–300 CE) on inland Pisco River pampas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Early Horizon–Early Intermediate 250–200 BCE (Initial Late Chavín to Wari interstice, Casma-Sechín tradition) · Casma–Sechín / Pampas ( north-central desert, precedent to Moche for Casma valley, not Inca)
Oldest solar observatory in Americas (250–200 BCE): 13 evenly spaced 2–5 m towers on 300 m ridge crest marking annual solar horizon from two enclosed observation pavilions (western fortress hill and…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (Moxeke–Casma) · Moxeke / Casma (Initial Period)
Initial Period 1800 BCE twin pyramid city at Moxeke — 160×170 m 30 m pyramid facing Huaca A across plaza, largest Santa Valley centre contemporary with Sechín.
🇵🇪 Peru · Fortress
Late Intermediate – Late Horizon (c.900–1470 CE) Huaura – Chancay – Inca · Huaura – Chancay (Coastal)
Acaray (often misattributed as 'Inca fortress') crowns a tabular hill 6 km inland in the lower Huaura Valley, Lima, at 250 m.
