🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Casma-Sechin Geoglyphs
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.
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🇵🇪 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
Initial Period to Early Horizon (Sechín-Casma) · Sechín / Casma
Arid pampa (210 m, 9°28′48″S 78°18′00″W) between Río Casma and Río Sechín, extension north of known Sechín Bajo pyramid (1800 BCE) pampa lines.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Moche to Middle Horizon / Early Intermediate (600–900 CE dominant) · Casma (Sechín) culture, Moche substrate
Largest single adobe structure in Peru and largest pyramid by volume in the New World — 270 m long, 180 m wide, 30 m high truncated pyramid (4 platforms stepped) dominating Casma plain, debated Late…