🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Ventarrón Archaeological Complex
Initial Period 2500–500 BCE · Early coastal Formative
Deer-net mural 2000 BCE, oldest in Americas.
🇵🇪 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 · Pyramid
Sechín Alto Principal Platform — Casma
Initial Period, c.1800-1000 BCE (Sechín–Casma) · Andean (Casma–Sechín)
Sechín Alto in Casma Valley (Ancash): huge U-shaped platform compound 300×250 m, 44 m high, with atrium and sunken courts. Excavated by Julio C.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna
Moche (Mochica) 100–800 CE (Huaca de la Luna 100–600 CE; Sol 450–600 CE peak) · Moche (Moche culture)
Twin massive adobe pyramid complexes of Moche state (100–800 CE): Huaca del Sol 43 m high (185 × 41 m base, largest pre-Columbian adobe mass in Americas, 143 million bricks stamped with maker's…
🇵🇪 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 · Pyramid
Huaca Prieta — Chicama Preceramic Mound
Preceramic to Initial Period (5500–1800 BCE), Kotosh tradition overlap · Preceramic Chicama (Huaca Prieta–El Paraíso)
Blackish ash mound north of Chicama mouth forming 14 m Junius Bird 1946 stratigraphic cut that defined Andean Preceramic sequence — preceramic houses with stone-lined pits, twined cotton textiles…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Sechín Alto — Principal Platform Mound
Initial Period, c.1800–1200 BCE (Sechin Culture) · Casma-Sechín (Andean Initial Period)
Principal mound at Sechín Alto — largest architectural complex in the Americas before 2000 BCE (c.1800–1200 BCE, Initial Period Sechin Culture), 300 m long, 250 m wide, 35 m high platform mound with…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Caral Pyramids
Early Horizon · Andean
Norte Chico pyramids at Caral (3000–1800 BCE) 6 monumental platforms 18–28 m high, Pirámide Mayor 153×109 m, oldest city in Americas UNESCO.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Caral-Supe
Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) · Caral-Supe (Norte Chico)
Caral-Supe in Lima, Peru is a Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Caral-Supe (Norte Chico) culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
El Paraíso (Chuquitanta) Preceramic Mega-Pyramid
Late Preceramic (Norte Chico late) · Cotton Preceramic / Andean late hunter-gatherer-fishers
Late Preceramic mega-pyramid El Paraíso (Chuquitanta) 3500–1800 BCE: 58 ha cotton-preceramic city, Unit I 45×45 m shicra-bag pampas pyramid — largest Preceramic pyramid Americas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca del Sol (Grand Moche Pyramid)
Early Intermediate Moche (100–800 CE, peak Moche III–IV 400–600 CE) · Moche (Mochica, north coast, Moche Valley capital)
Largest adobe structure in Americas: Huaca del Sol (Moche 100–800 CE, peak 400–600 CE) 342×159 m base, 41 m high preserved (original maybe 50 m) with four stepped platforms, built in ~140 million…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca del Sol — Moche Grand Pyramid
Moche (Early Intermediate), c.100–750 CE · Moche (Mochica)
Huaca del Sol — largest adobe pyramid in the Americas, Moche capital platform (c.100–750 CE, Early Intermediate).
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Intihuatana, Urubamba
Intihuatana (possibly from in the Quechua spelling Inti Watana or Intiwatana), at the archaeological site of Machu Picchu, is a notable ritual stone associated with the astronomic clock or calendar…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Tucume Huaca Larga Pyramid
Late Intermediate (Sicán/Lambayeque 1100–1375 CE, Chimú 1375–1470 CE, Inca 1470–1532 CE) · Lambayeque (Sicán) / Chimú / Inca (La Leche Valley)
Largest adobe pyramid of Lambayeque–Chimú complex at Túcume (26 huacas, 220 ha): Huaca Larga 700 m long, 280 m wide, 30 m high truncated adobe mass with two joined platforms (Larga and central mound)…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Túcume Pyramids
Late Intermediate (Lambayeque 1000–1350 → Chimú 1350–1470 → Inca 1470–1532) · Lambayeque (Sicán) → Chimú → Inca
Valley of 26 adobe trunk-pyramids (1000–1532) on plain around eroded Cerro La Raya hill: Lambayeque/Sicán then Chimú then Inca 26 pyramids 12–25 m high (Huaca Larga 700 m long largest adobe pyramid…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Yayno — Huari Fortified City
Middle Horizon / Early Intermediate (400–800 CE) · Recuay / Wari influenced
Yayno — Huari Fortified City in Ancash Region, Peru is a Middle Horizon / Early Intermediate (400–800 CE) ancient-city attributed to Recuay / Wari influenced. Largest fort in Americas?