🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 959
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 959 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
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Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 974
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 974 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
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Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 985
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 985 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
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Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 99
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 99 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
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Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 995
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 995 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 997
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 997 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Hualcayán
Formative to Early Intermediate (Chavín–Recuay) · Chavín–Recuay (Pashash)
Valley-head platform complex (1000 BCE–600 CE) at foot of Cordillera Blanca east of Huaylas, on Hualcayán fan at 3180 m with terraced Chavínoid temple overlain by Recuay galleries,...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
El Purgatorio (Huaca Fortaleza) — Max Andean Pyramid (Casma Valley, Peru)
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…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Sechin Alto Principal Platform
Initial Period (Casma/Sechin, 1800–900 BCE, peak 1500 BCE) · Casma–Sechin culture (Initial Period, Casma Valley)
Largest Formative Period platform in Americas (1800–900 BCE, Initial Period peak 1500 BCE): principal mound 300×250 m base, 44 m high with two lateral broad platforms forming U around plaza 300×250 m…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex
Early Horizon–Early Intermediate 250–200 BCE (Initial Late Chavín to Wari interstice, Casma-Sechín tradition) · Casma–Sechín / Pampas ( north-central desert, precedent to Moche for Casma valley, not Inca)
Oldest solar observatory in Americas (250–200 BCE): 13 evenly spaced 2–5 m towers on 300 m ridge crest marking annual solar horizon from two enclosed observation pavilions (western fortress hill and…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Las Aldas — Initial Period Pyramid Hill Preceramic Cliff
Initial Period (1800–1000 BCE) major construction 1600 BCE; Preceramic fishing net 2500 BCE earlier · Initial PeriodCas ma (Las Aldas) coastal temple
Las Aldas excavated by Pozorski 1976, 1800 pyramid Initiation.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Chankillo — Second Thirteen Towers Sector
Early Horizon–Early Intermediate Casma Sechín 250–200 BCE · Casma/Sechín (Punkurí tradition)
Second Thirteen Towers line 400 m east of famous solar observatory, with observing building and bastions.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Chanquillo — Solar Observatory Fortified Temple Chankillo
Late Chavín to Sechin Casma (350–200 BCE) fortress and 13-tower ridge 200 BCE (Ghezzi UNESCO 2021) · Sechin / Casma Late Chavín solar observatory state
Chankillo UNESCO 2021 Ghezzi 2001 fortress with solar riddle.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Huaricoto — Callejón de Huaylas Three-Temple Sequence Mito
Preceramic Mito 2200 BCE to Chavín 1000 BCE to Recuay 500 CE multi-occupied 2200–500 BCE · Kotosh-Mito → Chavín → Recuay Huaricoto with 3 temple superimpositions
Huaricoto Burger 1980 Mit double and white plaster 2200 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
La Galgada — Pallasca Canyon Mito Mound 3000 BCE
Late Preceramic Kotosh-Mito 3000–1700 BCE (Galgalda north mound 3000 BCE south 2200) · Kotosh-Mito tradição La Galgada (Grieder group) with 3050 BCE mound
La Galgada Grieder 1978 Mitodouble 3050–1700.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Las Haldas
Initial Period (Early Formative) · Casma–Sechín (Las Haldas coastal)
Arid coastal initial pyramid center (1800–1000 BCE) on dune 20 km south of Casma at 35 m above Samanco Bay, with four sequential sunken circular/plaza courts descending to Main Mou...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke — Second Platform
Initial Period Casma-Sechín 1800–900 BCE · Casma/Sechín (Moxeke–Pampa de las Llamas polity)
Second platform of earliest planned city in Peru: 30 m Moxeke pyramid with warrior friezes over 200 compounds grid.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Sechín Bajo Temple Mound
Early Horizon · Andean
Earliest Andean pyramid Sechín Bajo (3500 BCE) two-storey temple 150×120 m with plaza and friezes of dugout, cradle, Old Temple.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Sechín — Cerro Sechín Victory Mural Excarnated Heads Plaza
Preceramic to Sechin (Cerro Sechín 1600 BCE temple with 300 warrior stelae; Sechin Bajo 3500 BCE Old Temple plaza circular 1650 BCE square) · Sechin-Casma Early Ceramic (Sechin 1600) over Sechin Bajo Preceramic 3500 BCE square
Sechin excavated by Tello 1937 and Fuchs 2002 Sechin Bajo 3500 plaza.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Wilcahuaín — Wari Mausaoleum Highland Temple
Wari (600–800 CE) and later Recuay hinterland · Wari (Huari) highland expansion
Huaraz Wilcahuaín excavated by Bennett 1944, Wari 650 CE highland temple with 3 vaulted tombs, vents.