🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Wilcahuain (Huilcahuaín)
Middle Horizon Wari 700–800 CE · Wari (Huaraz highland)
3-storey Wari gallery-mausoleum with interior ventilated labyrinth, 700–800 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Settlement
Waman Marka
Late Horizon (Inca) · Inca (Ollantaytambo sphere)
Sacred Valley terrace annex (1400–1532 CE) on south hillside opposite Ollantaytambo fortress across Urubamba River at 2850 m, comprising 100-storey andenería over 28 ha fed by high...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca de la Florida Baja — Collique Pyramid Mound
Formative / Initial Period (Chillón tradition) · Andean Formative (Chillón / Lima precursor)
Formative pyramid mound Huaca de la Florida Baja — 40 m Collique platform pyramid 8 m high c.1200–600 BCE, Chillón Valley Lima tradition companion to Garagay.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Limatambo
Late Horizon (Inca) · Inca (Cusco imperial)
Inca road sanctuary (1400–1532 CE) at Limatambo pass on Cusco–Andahuaylas–Apurímac corridor at 2550 m, with Tarawasi polished polygonal gateway-mur retaining 4-m terrace, ushnu pla...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Montegrande (Jaén)
Late Preceramic–Initial Period 3000–2500 BCE · Marañón Amazon-Andes (Jaén pre-Carral)
5300-year spiral temple in Amazonian Jaén with world's oldest cacao 5300 BP and Maltese cross hearth.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Shicras
Late Archaic (Norte Chico) · Norte Chico (Caral-Supe sphere)
Late Archaic platform (2600–2000 BCE) in Huaral piedmont on south cone of Caral sphere, with 8-m truncated shicra-fill pyramid, central atrium, sunken circular court and lateral pl...
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Checta Petroglyphs
Initial Period to Late Horizon ~1500 BCE–1532 CE · Andean (Chavín-influenced to Inca)
450 boulder petroglyph field above Chillón River with 3,500-year rayed-head tradition.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Cajamarquilla Pyramids
Early Intermediate Lima to Middle Horizon Wari 1–800 CE · Lima culture (later Wari influence)
167-ha tapia pyramid city, 1st–8th century CE Lima culture metropolis.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Vitcos-Rosaspata
Late Horizon Inca Resistance 1536–1572 · Inca (Neo-Inca State)
Inca Vilcabamba resistance capital: Rosaspata palace, Yurak Rumi 2.5 m white shrine and Ñusta Hispana.
🇵🇪 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 · Tell
Yachaymarca (Yachay Marca)
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (c.1000-1532 CE) · Andean Late Intermediate-Late Horizon (Wari–Inca)
Yachaymarca (Yachay Marca) — buried late tell/village at Ancash Region.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Pachacamac Pyramids
Lima 200–600 → Wari → Ichma 1100–1470 → Inca 1470–1533 (pyramids Ichma period) · Lima → Wari → Ichma → Inca
Pan-Andean oracle sanctuary 200–1533 with 17 ramp pyramids (Huaca del Sol Inca? Not, Pachacamac pyramids): large stepped terraces with central ramp (Ichma style 1100–1470), Inca Temple of the Sun 30…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Pampa Grande Huaca Fortaleza
Middle Horizon Moche V (600–750 CE, post-Moche IV collapse in south, Pampa Grande phase) · Moche (Moche V, Lambayeque polity)
Moche V (600–750 CE) fortress-pyramid Huaca Fortaleza at Pampa Grande: adobe mass 250×200 m 40 m high truncated with 290 m long ramp west, enclosing plaza 400×250 m, with elite compound atop.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Los Loteros — Chincha Valley Intermediate Mound
Late Intermediate (Chincha, 1000–1470 CE) · Chincha
Secondary adobe mound 7 km north-east of La Centinela in Chincha Valley interior, surveyed by Wallace 1957 and Sandweiss 2010 as part of 50-mound Chincha hierarchical pyramid system feeding Centinela…
🇵🇪 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 · Archaeological wonder
Tunanmarca
Late Intermediate Wanka (Xauxa) 1000–1460 CE · Wanka (Xauxa)
1,000-house Wanka honeycomb hilltop citadel, 1000–1460 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Cantalloc Puquios Aqueducts
Paracas to Early Nazca ~300 BCE–600 CE · Nazca (and earlier Paracas)
Nazca spiral puquio filtration galleries - 600 m underground still watering desert after 1,400 years.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Chotuna–Chornancap
Middle Sicán to Chimú 700–1375 CE · Sicán (Lambayeque) then Chimú
Golden Priestess tomb within twin truncated pyramids, 700–1375 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Huchuy Qosqo
Early Late Horizon 1420–1438 CE (pre-Pachacuti) · Inca (pre-imperial)
Wiraqocha's 3600 m royal estate above Sacred Valley with 40 m Kallanka, terraces and reservoir 23 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Qhapaq Ñan – Andean Road System
Inca Empire with antecedents Wari/Tiwanaku (~1000–1532 CE; Inca 1438–1532 CE) · Inca (with pre-Inca antecedents)
The backbone of Tawantinsuyu, Qhapaq Ñan runs 6,000 km along the Andean crest from Colombia to Chile, with east–west transversal roads totalling over 23,000 km.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Saywite Monolith
Inca Late Horizon ca.1470 CE · Inca
2.28-m granite boulder with 203 miniature carvings, ca.1470 Inca hydraulic model.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Tarawasi
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1440–1536 CE · Inca
Qhapaq Ñan tambo with 28-niche polygonal usnu platform of perfectly fitted octagonal andesite.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Puruchuco Palace
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon Lima Ychsma–Inca 1200–1532 · Ychsma–Inca
Tapia palace with 1,000-burial cemetery, 1200–1532 CE Lima–Inca.
🇵🇪 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…