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🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Huaricanga is the earliest city of the Norte Chico civilization, called Caral or Caral-Supe in Peru and Spanish language sources.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and in Quechua: Qhapaq Ñan meaning "royal road") was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tomb
The Basilica and Convent of San Francisco (Spanish: Basílica y Convento de San Francisco) is a Catholic church building located in the Historic Centre of Lima, Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Moche Sipan Huaca Rajada South Adobe Mass in Lambayeque, Huaca Rajada, Peru is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon projection onto pre-Inca petroglyph horizon Pre-Columbian to Early Colonial hypothesis · Inca Vilcabamba hypothesis projected onto pre-Inca rock art (unvalidated) / Machiguenga
Most-photographed Paititi candidate — sandstone mesa terraces above Pusharo petroglyphs on Pantiacolla range, 670 m, no verified masonry.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Wari Pikillaqta Sector 2 Compound 14 in Cusco, Pikillaqta, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Formative (1000 BCE–500 CE) · Formative hydraulic
Nazca Cantalloc Aqueduct Spiral 7 in Ica, Nazca, Peru is a Formative (1000 BCE–500 CE) hydraulic attributed to Formative hydraulic.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Wari–Late Intermediate–Inca · Wari–Ychsma with modern megalith folklore
Mythic paramo stone forest (4000 m) 8 km trek from San Pedro de Casta east of Lima, with 40 natural granite monoliths anthropomorphized (Monument of Humanity 25 m, Face of Man 8 m,...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate, c.400-600 CE (Moche / Mochica) · Andean (Moche)
Huaca del Sol at Moche (Huacas de Moche archaeological complex) 5 km south Trujillo: enormous adobe pyramid 340×136 m base, 41 m high, built with 140 million adobes each marked by labor gang (ayllu)…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (1800–800 BCE) · Casma Las Haldas culture / Initial Coastal
Pacific-terrace Initial Period city Las Haldas (1800–1000 BCE): 20 m stone central pyramid with 300×200 m plazas on 30 m marine terrace above sea, coastal Initial tradition without ceramics.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon — Ychsma (1100–1450 CE) then Inca (1450–1532 CE) · Ychsma (Ichma) then Inca
Island of five pyramids in dense Breña–Cercado between avenues Mariano Cornejo and Tingo María, Lima’s most important Ichma centre later co-opted as Inca provincial capital of the Chillón–Rimac…
🇵🇪 Peru · Necropolis
Chauchilla Cemetery is a cemetery that contains prehispanic mummified human remains and archeological artifacts, located 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the city of Nazca in Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
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
Early Intermediate Lima (200–700 CE) with Middle Horizon Wari intrusive 500–700 CE · Lima (Ichma predecessor of Pachacamac) with Huari (Wari) superstructure
Seven-storey adobe pyramid (500×100 m, 25 m high) in Miraflores, Lima, built bookcase-style (small vertical adobe bricks placed on edge like books) to resist earthquakes, with Wari cemetery above.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1440–1532 CE, ushnu 1450–1480) · Inca (Pachacuti / Topa Inca – Vilcas province)
Imperial Inca stepped pyramid-ushnu (1450–1530, Pachacuti foundation) at center of Inca provincial capital Vilcashuamán (Vilcas, 22 sq km Inca city, 700+ buildings): Ushnu 30×30 m base 12 m high…