🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Choquequirao — Inca Eagle Nest Ridge City
Inca Imperial (1420–1536 CE; Tupac Inca Yupanqui) · Inca (Topa Inca)
Choquequirao explored by Bingham 1909 and García 1993–, llama terraces unique, Apurímac canyon 1500 m drop.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Coricancha (Qorikancha) – Temple of the Sun, Cusco
Late Intermediate – Late Horizon (1200–1533, imperial 1440–1532) · Inca (Manco Capac to Atahualpa)
Supreme Inca sanctuary (c.1200–1533, imperial rebuild Pachacuti c.1440) at heart of Cusco's sacred geography: trapezoidal-walled temenos enclosing Sun Temple curved ashlar wall (6 m high, 55 m long,…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Incallajta — North Kallanka Hall (Cochabamba, Bolivia)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban; Inca
Incallajta — North Kallanka Hall (Cochabamba, Bolivia) in Cochabamba, Incallajta, Bolivia is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attri…
🇵🇪 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 · Pyramid
Huaca Mateo Salado — Lima Five-Pyramid Complex
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…