🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village
Llactapata (Choquequirao Satellite)
Late Horizon 1450–1536 CE · Inca
Choquequirao solar outpost: doorway aligns solstice sunrise onto Choquequirao usnu 5 km across canyon.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Palpa Lines and Geoglyphs
Paracas (800–200 BCE) to Topará (200 BCE–200 CE) to early Nazca · Paracas and Topará–Nazca
1,000 hill-crest geoglyphs (1000 BCE–800 CE) — the Paracas predecessor to Nazca on Palpa terraces.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Moray Agricultural Terraces
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 · Hypothetical site
Paititi — Paratoari Pyramids at Manú Alto Plateau (Paratoari Norte) — v2
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) natural Meso steps + pre-Columbian field field 900 CE · Hypothetical Inca pyramid city (unvalidated) / pre-Columbian field field culture
Paratoari pyramidal mesas 150 m promoted as Paititi north — mesas natural mesas with 2 km field levee 0.5 m, Inka sherds at base but no summit stone.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Viracochapampa
Middle Horizon (c.600–800 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Viracochapampa (Quechua Wiraqucha god + pampa plain) is a vast unfinished Wari grid-city 3.5 km north of Huamachuco in the La Libertad highlands at 3,070 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Toro Muerto West Extension (Uraca Ravine)
Middle Horizon (Wari) with Early Intermediate roots · Wari / Majes rock-art style
Western periphery (620 m) of the 5 km² Toro Muerto boulder field (Dead Bull), the largest Andean petroglyph complex: ~3,000 volcanic boulders engraved (Wari 500-1000 CE, with earlier Preceramic).
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Huánuco Pampa
Inca Late Horizon 1460–1532 CE · Inca (Wanka mitma)
Inca storehouse city 500 qollqas on Qhapaq Ñan, 1460–1532 CE.
🇵🇪 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 · Pyramid
Cahuachi Sector Y
Early Intermediate Nazca 1 BCE–500 CE with Initial 400 BCE foundations · Nazca (with Paracas antecedent)
Sector Y 500 m west of Great Pyramid at Cahuachi: adobe (adobito) pyramid 8 m high 40×35 m base with plastered terrace for feasting middens and Paracas-Cahuachi polychrome offering cache (head jars).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Cerro Blanco — Huacas de Moche Extension Terrace
Early–Middle Moche (200–600 CE) · Moche
Cerro Blanco — Huacas de Moche Extension Terrace in La Libertad Region, Peru is a Early–Middle Moche (200–600 CE) pyramid attributed to Moche.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Nazca Lines
Early Intermediate Period, Paracas to Nazca culture · Paracas / Nazca
Over 300 geometric and figurative geoglyphs etched by removing dark desert pavement to reveal light subsoil across 450 km² of arid Pampas, including 1.8 km hummingbird, monkey, spider, and trapezoids…
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Paititi — Pusharo Ridge Western Terrace at Manú Headwaters (Madre de Dios West) — v2
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) Late Intermediate ambiguous pre-Columbian hypothesis · Hypothetical Inca refuge / pre-Inca (unvalidated)
Pusharo west ridge Paititi hypothesis 1.5 km rectilinear terrace 0.7 m and 10 m depressions under montane canopy — 1450 CE charcoal but no stone, landslide bench suspected.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Tucume Pyramid Huaca Larga South Ramp
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Tucume Pyramid Huaca Larga South Ramp in Lambayeque, Túcume, Peru is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Pucllana Pyramid North Adobe Platform
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Huaca Pucllana Pyramid North Adobe Platform in Lima, Miraflores, Peru is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Moche Huaca de la Luna North Facade
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Moche Huaca de la Luna North Facade in La Libertad, Moche, Peru is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Chavín de Huántar
Early Horizon / Formative 1200–500 BCE (Old Temple 1200–900, New Temple 750–500 BCE) · Chavín (Early Horizon Andean formative tradition, culmination of Kotosh-Urabarriu)
Andean Formative mother temple (1200–500 BCE) at 3,180 m near Cordillera Blanca with U-shaped Old Temple (1000×100 m) and New Temple Plaza, Lanzón monolith (4.53 m granite anthropomorphic feline with…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Chaviña Pampa South Sector Geoglyphs (Quebrada Chaviña Sur)
Nasca-Huari Transition to Middle Horizon · Huarpa–Wari (Lucanas)
Chaviña south pampa: 20 spiral/camelid figures on Lucanas ignimbrite fan at 3,280 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Willkawaín (Wilkawain) — Wari-Rucu Pyramid Temple (Caleyón de Huaylas, Ancash, Peru)
Middle Horizon (600–800 CE), Recuay–Wari · Recuay (Pashash)–Wari (Huari)
Three-storey subterranean-tower pyramid-mausoleum (12 m high, 18x18 m square) of Recuay (Pashash) then Wari-Tiwanaku horizon (600–800 CE) in Callejón de Huaylas at 3400 m, built of dressed white…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Honcopampa — Recuay-Wari Pyramid Platform Town (Ancash, Peru)
Early Intermediate to Middle Horizon (400–800 CE) · Recuay (Pashash)–Wari
High puna fortified town (400–800 CE) of Recuay then Wari, built as terraced pyramidal platform town with 4+ stone masonry pyramids (8–12 m high, 20–30 m per side) capped by elite halls and…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Pacatnamú — Pyramid Complex of the Jequetepeque Valley (La Libertad, Peru)
Gallinazo to Late Intermediate (500 BCE–1470 CE) · Moche–Lambayeque–Chimú palimpsest
Huge coastal Moche–Lambayeque pyramid and fortress city perched on bluff above Jequetepeque delta (500 BCE–1370 CE continuous).
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Toro Muerto — Ancillary Petroglyph North (Arequipa, Peru)
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Toro Muerto — Ancillary Petroglyph North (Arequipa, Peru) in Arequipa, Toro Muerto, Peru is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art at…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Galindo — Platform Pyramid and Moche Urban Terrace (Moche Valley, Peru)
Late Moche / Middle Horizon transition (600–800 CE) · Moche (Late Moche valley polity)
Last Moche capital after Huacas de Moche collapse (600–800 CE), 5 km² planned city behind Gallows Hill with Plataforma A pyramid (55x35 m, 10 m high terrace) as palatial-ceremonial core, surrounded…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Intipunku Sun Gate — North Approach (Machu Picchu)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban; Inca
Intipunku Sun Gate — North Approach (Machu Picchu) in Cusco, Machu Picchu, Intipunku, Peru is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attr…