Em Miraflores - bairro central de Lima, encontra-se o parque arqueológico Huaca Pucllana, descoberto na segunda metade do séc. XX . Trata-se de um complexo com a Plaza, vários estruturas e uma pirâmide de adobe e barro construída em 7 plataformas. O nome vem do Quechua e significa "lugar de jogos rituais" e era o centro administrativo da cultura Lima - que se desenvolveu entre os anos 200 d.C - 700 d.C
Também em Huaca foram descobertos vestígios da cultura Waki e a tumba cerimonial intacta do Señor de los Unkus , contendo 3 corpos .
The Huaca Pucllana is a great adobe and clay pyramid located in the Miraflores district of central Lima built from seven platforms. It takes its name from the Quechua word “pucllay,” meaning “game,” which in its entirety can be translated as “a place for ritual games.” It served as an important ceremonial and administrative center for the advancement of the Lima Culture, a society which developed in the Peruvian Central Coast between the years of 200 AD and 700 AD.
Other remains have been uncovered belonging to the Wari Culture (500 AD-900 AD), which was a direct influence on the Lima Culture society towards the ends of its time period. Of particular note are the remains of the “Señor de los Unkus” (The Lord of the Unkus), which belonged to the first tomb within the ceremonial center to have been discovered completely intact. This tomb holds three separate burial shrouds containing the remains of three adults–two of which have masks–and those of a sacrificed child.
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Um pouco mais distanciado, a 40 km de Lima, encontra-se Pachacamac - conhecida como A Roma dos Andes, com seus templos, ruas, pirâmides e cemitérios. Pachacamac foi a sede do oráculo mais famoso do mundo andino. A maioria dos templos e pirâmides são anteriores ao s Incas, muitas feitas pelos Waris , marcando seu centro religioso. Mesmo pós o domínio Inca e seu Império Tawantinsuyo (Confederação Inca), pessoas de várias religiões ainda vinham ao oráculo para consultas.
The temple of Pachacamac is an archeological site 40 km southeast of Lima, in the Valley of the Lurín River. Know as the Rome of the Andes, with its temples, streets, pyramids, cemeteries and home to the most famous oracle in the Andean empire, Pachacamac received people from all around the Andes to visit the shrine and to learn what the future held for them. Most of the common buildings and temples were built c. 800-1450 A.D. , shortly before the arrival and conquest by the Inca Empire.
Caminho Inca / Inca Road