🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple 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 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 in La Libertad, Peru is a Moche (100-800 CE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Inca Imperial, 15th century; possibly Killke antecedents · Inca
Cyclopean fortress-temple complex 2 km northwest of Cusco with three zigzagging dry-stone ramparts of limestone blocks up to 120 tonnes and 9 m high, fitted without mortar with sub-millimeter…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Initial Period to Early Intermediate (Sechin-Recuay) · Casma-Sechin / Recuay
Initial Period desert geoglyphs (1800-1000 BCE) on Casma pampa: feline and anthropomorph lines precursing Nazca.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate to Middle Horizon (Siguas–Nazca–Wari) · Lucanas puna Siguas–Nazca–Wari (Puquio transect)
38 high-puna figures on Chaviña East 3980 m: zoomorphs plus 3.2 km solstice avenues radiating from apacheta to Misti sightline.
🇵🇪 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 · Pyramid
Late Intermediate (c.1200–1470 CE) – Lima and Ychsma-Chancay · Lima – Wari – Ychsma – Chancay
Mangomarca is a compound adobe pyramid-temple complex terraced on the right-bank terrace of the lower Rímac at San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (Sicán / Lambayeque) · Sicán / Lambayeque
Seasonal desert pampa (85 m) in lower La Leche basin (6°00′-6°40′S 79°10′-80°00′W) between the Sican capital Batan Grande and Túcume adobe pyramids, georeferenced by UNESCO tentative 6419 (Ceremonial…
🇵🇪 Peru · Fortress
Late Intermediate – Inca (c.1100–1532 CE) · Kana – Colla – Wari – Inca
Waqrapukara (Quechua waqra horn + pukara fortress) is a spectacular condor-shaped citadel perched at 4,110 m on the Apurímac canyon rim near Pomacanchi, Cusco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Early Intermediate 400 BCE–450 CE (Paracas–Proto-Nazca to Early Nazca, peak 100 BCE–450 CE) · Nazca (Nasca, south coast)
Capital and pilgrimage center of Nazca culture (400 BCE–500 CE) – 24 km² desert metropolis with 34+ pyramidal adobe mounds (Great Pyramid 22 m high, 100×150 m base; Orange Pyramid), plazas (Great…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate · Wari / Chuquibamba
18 geometric and zoomorphic cleared geoglyphs (800–1200 CE) on La Caldera pampa south of Toro Muerto.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (Huarpa–Early Wari) · Huarpa / Rancha–Huarpa transition
18+ high-puna (3,200 m) trapezoids and zoomorphs (200 BCE–600 CE) linking Nazca to Wari highlands.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic / Cotton Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) · Andean Late Preceramic (Norte Chico–Chillón tradition, El Paraíso)
Late Preceramic mega-complex (3500–1800 BCE) in Chillón Valley, 58 ha, 11 pyramids, largest 100×100 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Sipan Royal Tomb Pyramid Platform in Lambayeque, Sipán, Peru is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇵🇪 Peru · Buried city
Late Horizon Neo-Inca (1539 – 1572 CE) · Neo-Inca State (Manco, Sayri, Titu Cusi, Tupac Amaru)
Last Inca capital valley floor — Espíritu Pampa Vilcabamba lowland terraces and causeway 0.5–1 m under floodplain jungle below Vitcos ridge.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE (Huarpa antecedent 200 BCE–600 CE) · Wari (Huari, Middle Horizon Andean empire, Quechua predecessor, Ayacucho basin)
Capital of Wari Empire (600–1000 CE) – Andean first empire predating Inca by 400 years, 2,000 ha patchwork city with 7 m-high, 2 m-thick walled enclosures (Moraduchayuq, Vegachayuq Moqo),…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Late Formative to Early Intermediate (Salinar–Recuay) · Salinar / Recuay (Pashash)
40+ Salinar–Recuay cleared-pavement geoglyphs (500 BCE–400 CE) on Santa Valley quebrada fans.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kuelap South Citadel Wall Bastion in Amazonas, Kuelap, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Wari to Late Horizon (200 – 1533 CE) · Wari / Ychsma / Inca
Pachacamac in Lima, Peru is a Wari to Late Horizon (200 – 1533 CE) temple complex attributed to Wari / Ychsma / Inca culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1440–1530 CE (built under Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui) · Inca (Quechua, Late Horizon, Sacred Valley expansion)
Inca royal estate and agricultural terraces considered among finest Inca ashlar engineering beyond Machu Picchu: Intihuatana (Sun-hitching stone) solstice-gnomon ridge, Qalla Q'asa fortress on…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) · Caral-Supe (Norte Chico)
Caral-Supe in Lima, Peru is a Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Caral-Supe (Norte Chico) culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Early Formative (1400 – 800 BCE) · Cupisnique / Chavín-related
Garagay Alt in Lima, Peru is a Early Formative (1400 – 800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Cupisnique / Chavín-related culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Formative Period (Cupisnique-Chavín / Manchay-Chavínoid, 1500–600 BCE, peak 1300–1000 BCE) · Chavínoid (Cupisnique/Chavín, Central Coast)
Chavínoid ceremonial center (Cupisnique-Chavín 1500–600 BCE, peak 1200 BCE) on north bank Rímac: U-shaped complex with central pyramid 85×60 m 25 m high in three construction phases, lateral…
