🇵🇪 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.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
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.
🇵🇪 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Archaeological wonder
Late Horizon Inca (c.1450 – 1572 CE) · Inca (Quechua) Pachacuti — Tupac Yupanqui
Choquequirao northern Coriwayrachina saddle — Inca terraces 4 m and quartz llama enclosures across saddle from central plaza.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (c.1440–1532 CE) · Inca (Pachacuti – Huanca integration)
Intact Inca palace-temple (1450–1530, Inca Pachacuti–Topa period) uniquely fused with Spanish church San Juan Bautista (1570s): walls 3 m thick coursed imperial Inca ashlar with 28 trapezoidal niches…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Intermediate – Late Horizon (1200–1533, imperial 1440–1532) · Inca (Manco Capac to Atahualpa)
Supreme Inca sanctuary (c.1200–1533, imperial rebuild Pachacuti c.1440) at heart of Cusco's sacred geography: trapezoidal-walled temenos enclosing Sun Temple curved ashlar wall (6 m high, 55 m long,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon — Ychsma (1100–1450 CE) then Inca (1450–1532 CE) · Ychsma (Ichma) then Inca
Island of five pyramids in dense Breña–Cercado between avenues Mariano Cornejo and Tingo María, Lima’s most important Ichma centre later co-opted as Inca provincial capital of the Chillón–Rimac…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1480–1536 CE) · Inca (Topa Inca Yupanqui – Wanka campaign)
Planned Inca city founded by Topa Inca Yupanqui c.1480 to replicate Cusco as headquarters for conquering Guarco (Huarcu) kingdom of Cañete valley: full Qorikancha-like Temple of the Sun with…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1440–1532 CE, ushnu 1450–1480) · Inca (Pachacuti / Topa Inca – Vilcas province)
Imperial Inca stepped pyramid-ushnu (1450–1530, Pachacuti foundation) at center of Inca provincial capital Vilcashuamán (Vilcas, 22 sq km Inca city, 700+ buildings): Ushnu 30×30 m base 12 m high…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Lambayeque–Chimú–Inca) · Lambayeque / Chimú / Inca
Northern extension of Túcume’s Huaca Larga — 150 m platform 20 m high c.1450 CE showing progressive northward growth of 26-pyramid valley city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Horizon Inca coastal 1470–1532 CE · Inca (coastal Pisco Chinchaysuyu)
Best-preserved polychrome Inca adobe palace enclosure on Pisco coast, 1470–1532 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Settlement
Late Horizon (Inca) · Inca (Ollantaytambo sphere)
Sacred Valley terrace annex (1400–1532 CE) on south hillside opposite Ollantaytambo fortress across Urubamba River at 2850 m, comprising 100-storey andenería over 28 ha fed by high...
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Horizon (Inca) · Inca (Cusco imperial)
Inca road sanctuary (1400–1532 CE) at Limatambo pass on Cusco–Andahuaylas–Apurímac corridor at 2550 m, with Tarawasi polished polygonal gateway-mur retaining 4-m terrace, ushnu pla...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Lima 200–600 → Wari → Ichma 1100–1470 → Inca 1470–1533 (pyramids Ichma period) · Lima → Wari → Ichma → Inca
Pan-Andean oracle sanctuary 200–1533 with 17 ramp pyramids (Huaca del Sol Inca? Not, Pachacamac pyramids): large stepped terraces with central ramp (Ichma style 1100–1470), Inca Temple of the Sun 30…
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Inca Empire with antecedents Wari/Tiwanaku (~1000–1532 CE; Inca 1438–1532 CE) · Inca (with pre-Inca antecedents)
The backbone of Tawantinsuyu, Qhapaq Ñan runs 6,000 km along the Andean crest from Colombia to Chile, with east–west transversal roads totalling over 23,000 km.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Inca Late Horizon ca.1470 CE · Inca
2.28-m granite boulder with 203 miniature carvings, ca.1470 Inca hydraulic model.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon Lima Ychsma–Inca 1200–1532 · Ychsma–Inca
Tapia palace with 1,000-burial cemetery, 1200–1532 CE Lima–Inca.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Late Horizon, Inca (~1300–1530 CE) · Inca
Three colossal natural depressions on the Maras plateau were amplified by Incas into concentric circular andenes up to 150 m across and 30 m deep, each terrace a microclimate ring with temperature…
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Wari to Late Horizon ~1200–1572 CE · Wari then Inca
Inca 12-terrace walled garden where spring water sings through 600-year-old stone drains.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inca Late Horizon 1460–1532 CE · Inca (Wanka mitma)
Inca storehouse city 500 qollqas on Qhapaq Ñan, 1460–1532 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Horizon (Inca Imperial, ~1450–1530 CE) · Inca (Quechua)
15th-century Inca citadel perched at 2,430 m on a narrow saddle between Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu peaks above the Urubamba Valley.
