Verified10.8930° S · 77.5210° W · 350 m
Caral-Supe Pyramids
Sacred City of Caral-Supe · Caral
Late Archaic / Norte Chico·Caral-Supe / Norte Chico·🇵🇪 Lima Region, Barranca Province, Supe Valley, Peru
About
About Caral-Supe Pyramids
Oldest city in Americas and largest Late Archaic New World pyramids (c.2600 BCE) – six truncated earthen pyramids with sunken plazas, residential sectors and early quipu and flutes in Supe Valley, contemporary with Old Kingdom Egypt.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 2600–2000 BCE
- Period
- Late Archaic / Norte Chico
- Culture
- Caral-Supe / Norte Chico
- Purpose
- Ceremonial and urban pyramidal platform-mounds
- Excavation
- Excavation ongoing
c. 2600–2000 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1344 CE
Major expansion
Location
Where it is
10.8930° S · 77.5210° W · 350 m
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