🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Government Palace, Peru
The Government Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Gobierno), also known as the House of Pizarro (Spanish: Casa de Pizarro), is the seat of the executive branch of the Peruvian government, and the official…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
El Castillo de Huarmey
El Castillo de Huarmey (English: "the Castle on the River Huarmey") is a pyramid-like structure on the coast of Peru, in the Ancash Region north of Lima, the most studied section of the archeological…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Cusichaca River
Cusichaca River (possibly from Quechua kusi delight, joy, happiness / merry, joyful, content, happy, chaka bridge, "joy bridge", or k'usi a cucurbit species, a small zucchini or Cucurbita pepo,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Khapia
Khapia (possibly from in the Aymara spelling Qhapiya, or Qapiya in Uru language, Hispanicized spellings Capía, Ccapia, Ccapía, Khapia, Khapía, K'apía) is a mountain in Peru, possibly an extinct…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Kuntuyuq
Kuntuyuq or Quntuyuq (Quechua kuntu, quntu fragrance, aroma, -yuq a suffix, "the one with a fragrance", Hispanicized spelling Contuyog, Cuntuyog) is an archaeological site with rock paintings on a…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Chichakuri
Chichakuri (Quechua chichaku, meaning chigoe flea (Tunga penetrans), -(i)ri an Aymara suffix; Hispanicized spelling Chichacori) is an archaeological site in Peru consisting of stone tombs (chullpa),…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inti Watana, Ayacucho
Inti Watana, Intiwatana (Quechua, hispanicized spelling Intihuatana) or Pumaqucha (Quechua puma cougar, puma, qucha lake, "puma lake", hispanicized spellings Pomaccocha, Pomacocha, Pumacocha) is an…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Cuchi Machay
Cuchi Machay (possibly from in the Quechua spelling Khuchi Mach'ay or Khuchimach'ay, khuchi pig, mach'ay cave, "pig cave") is an archaeological site with rock paintings in Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Llaqta Qulluy, Conayca
Llaqta Qulluy (Quechua llaqta place (village, town, city, country, nation), qulluy to die out, become extinct; to fail, "extinct town", also spelled Llaqta Qolloy) is an archaeological site in Peru…