🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Hatun Machay
Hatun Machay (possibly from Quechua hatun big, mach'ay cave) is a rock forest with archaeological remains in Peru. It was declared a National Cultural Heritage by Resolución Directoral No.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Stone Circle Ridge Americas 33 — Peru Region 9
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Stone Circle Ridge Americas 33 — Peru Region 9 in Peru Region 9, Peru is a Bronze Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 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 · Archaeological wonder
Band of Holes
The Band of Holes, also known in Spanish as Monte Sierpe (serpent mountain) or Cerro Viruela (smallpox hill), is a structure consisting of approximately 5,200 human-sized and stone-lined pits found…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Huillca Raccay
Huillca Raccay or Huillca Racay (also Willkaraqay or Willka Raqay ) (possibly from Quechua willka grandchild / great-grandson / lineage / minor god in the Inca culture, an image of the Vilcanota…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Cantalloc Aqueducts
The Cantalloc Aqueducts are a series of aqueducts located 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) east of the city of Nazca, Peru, built by the Nazca culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Intikancha (Puno)
Intikancha (Quechua inti sun, kancha enclosure, enclosed place, yard, a frame, or wall that encloses, "sun yard", Hispanicized spelling Inticancha) is a mountain with an archaeological site of the…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Isog
Isog (possibly from Quechua isu skin sickness caused by a certain mite (mange), -q a suffix) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Choquequirao
Inca Imperial 1450–1530 Neo-Inca to 1572 · Inca (Pachacuti? Topa Yupanqui)
Inca cloud-city with white stone llamas paving terraces above Apurimac canyon.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Hatun Misapata
Hatun Misapata or Misapata (Quechua hatun big, misa table, pata elevated place; above, at the top; edge, bank, shore, also spelled Qatun Mesapata or Mesapata) is an archaeological site in the…
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
El Ingenio Petroglyphs
Paracas to Early Nazca ~800 BCE–400 CE · Paracas–Nazca
Nazca-basin boulder petroglyphs bridging Paracas trophy-head art to Nazca geoglyphs.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inca complex at Písac
The Inca complex at Pisac is a large Incan complex of agricultural terraces, residences, guard posts, watchtowers and a ceremonial/religious centre located along a mountain ridge above the modern…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inti Watana, Calca
Inti Watana, Intihuatana or Intiwatana (Quechua) is an archaeological site in Peru. It lies in the Cusco Region, Calca Province, Pisac District, located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from Písac.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inti Punku
Inti Punku or Intipunku (Quechua inti sun, punku door, "sun gate", Hispanicized spellings Intipunco, Intipuncu, Inti Puncu) is an archaeological site in the Cusco Region of Peru that was once a…
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Cumbemayo Aqueduct, Cajamarca
Andean Formative (Early Horizon) · Cajamarca (Cumbemayo culture) pre-Chavín
Andean 9-km zigzag rock-cut canal 1500 BCE with zigzag flow-slowing and Frailones hoodoos.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Machu Colca
Machu Colca, Machuqolqa or Machu Qollqa (from Quechua machu old, old person, qullqa, qulqa deposit, storehouse) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inca Uyo
`Inca Uyo is an archaeological site of cut-stone structures located near the town of Chucuito, Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Huichún
Huichún (possibly from Quechua wich'un femur) is an archaeological site in Peru. The National Institute of Culture declared it a National Cultural Heritage by Resolución Directoral No.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Choquepuquio
Choquepuquio (possibly from Quechua chuqi metal, gold (Aymara), every kind of precious metal, pukyu spring, well) is an ancient Wari site in Peru in the valley of Cusco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Machu Pirqa
Machu Pirqa (Quechua machu old, old person, pirqa wall, "old wall", hispanicized spelling Machupirca) is an archaeological site of the Chachapoyas culture in Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Paracas Candelabra
Early Horizon, Paracas culture 200 BCE–100 BCE · Paracas culture, precursor to Nazca
181-m trident/cactus cut into coastal hill facing Pacific as sailors beacon.