🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 850
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 850 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 851
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 851 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 860
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 860 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 879
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 879 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 880
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 880 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 894
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 894 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 905
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 905 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 927
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 927 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 938
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 938 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 959
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 959 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 974
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 974 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 985
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 985 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 99
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 99 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 995
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 995 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 997
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 997 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Hualcayán
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 · Geoglyph
Moro-Casma Desert Pampa Geoglyphs (Áncash)
Initial Period to Early Horizon (Sechín-Casma) · Sechín / Casma
Arid pampa (210 m, 9°28′48″S 78°18′00″W) between Río Casma and Río Sechín, extension north of known Sechín Bajo pyramid (1800 BCE) pampa lines.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Castillo de Huarmey — Wari Burial Pyramid and Mausoleum
Middle Horizon, Wari Empire (600–900 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Dramatic ridge mound 4 km from sea, long known as Castillo, surprising 2013 discovery by Milosz Giersz and Roberto Pimentel of intact Wari royal burial complex sealed beneath 5 tons of rubble — first…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Manchan — Casma Polity Mud City Nepeña Casma Pampa
Casma (Sechín Casma culture 1100–1470 Chimú conquer 1350; Inca 1470 Chimu later) · Casma (Sechín) → Chimú → Inca (Manchan 1100 pre-CHimú capital of Casma Sechin polity 63 ha Terraced Sechin Cerro)
Manchan Moore 1981 Casma empire 63 ha planned 200 compounds.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
El Purgatorio (Huaca Fortaleza) — Max Andean Pyramid (Casma Valley, Peru)
Late Moche to Middle Horizon / Early Intermediate (600–900 CE dominant) · Casma (Sechín) culture, Moche substrate
Largest single adobe structure in Peru and largest pyramid by volume in the New World — 270 m long, 180 m wide, 30 m high truncated pyramid (4 platforms stepped) dominating Casma plain, debated Late…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Casma-Sechin Geoglyphs
Initial Period to Early Intermediate (Sechin-Recuay) · Casma-Sechin / Recuay
Initial Period desert geoglyphs (1800-1000 BCE) on Casma pampa: feline and anthropomorph lines precursing Nazca.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Sechin Alto Principal Platform
Initial Period (Casma/Sechin, 1800–900 BCE, peak 1500 BCE) · Casma–Sechin culture (Initial Period, Casma Valley)
Largest Formative Period platform in Americas (1800–900 BCE, Initial Period peak 1500 BCE): principal mound 300×250 m base, 44 m high with two lateral broad platforms forming U around plaza 300×250 m…