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Places tagged “formative” in Peru matching “Highland”

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“Highland”

🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works

Cumbemayo Aqueduct, Cajamarca

Andean Formative (Early Horizon) · Cajamarca (Cumbemayo culture) pre-Chavín

Andean 9-km zigzag rock-cut canal 1500 BCE with zigzag flow-slowing and Frailones hoodoos.

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🇵🇪 Peru · Fortress

Pacopampa

Formative (Pacopampa Early–Late) · Cupisnique / Chavinoid (Northern Highlands Formative)

Mountaintop ceremonial citadel (1200–500 BCE) on 2430-m Querocoto peak with three massive platforms, sunken courts, elite shaft tomb of Priest of Pacopampa (900 BCE) with gold crow...

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🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex

Piruru

Formative to Early Intermediate · Kotosh–Chavín–Wari local (Tantamayo highland)

Formative hilltop temple-citadel (1500 BCE–1000 CE) above Tantamayo on knife-edge jalca ridgetop at 3900 m, with Kotosh-tradition rock-walled temple pyramid 15 m, sunken court, and...