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The Old Temple, also called the Temple of Pachacamac, is the oldest building in Pachacamac. It is built on a rocky promontory and is characterized by the massive use of small bricks of raw adobe dated to the Early Intermediate period, under the influence of the Lima culture (3rd to 7th centuries AD).
Pachacamac or Pacha Kamaq [1] (Quechua, "Creator of the World"; also Pacharurac) was the deity worshipped in the city of Pachacamac (modern-day Peru) by the Ichma. Pacha Kamaq was believed to have created the first man and woman, but forgot to give them food and the man died. The woman cursed Pacha Kamaq, accusing him of neglect, and Pacha ...
At least since the Spanish conquest, the name used for the ancient temple as well as the nearby area is Pachacamac (from the Quechua name of deity).According to some colonial sources, though, the Pachachamac name might have been given by Inca conquerors, and the previous name for both the place and the temple was Ichma.
Historically, the district was the location of the temple complex of Pachacámac.. The district was created on January 2, 1857, and since then it has been an agricultural district as it is located in the center of the Lurín River valley.
Pachacámac was first encountered by Hernándo Pizarro on January 30, 1530, while on his quest for gold and his search for a location of a new capital. In 1573, the city of Santísimo Salvador de Pachacámac was founded.
The Pachacámac Islands are an important breeding site for seabirds such as red-legged and neotropic cormorants, Peruvbian boobies and Humboldt penguins. [3] Other birds present include guanay cormorants, Peruvian pelicans, Inca terns, Belcher's, kelp, grey, grey-headed and Franklin's gulls, turkey vultures, and American and blackish oystercatchers.
San Francisco de Asis temple, Ayaviri; San Geronimo Temple, Asillo; Santiago apostol temple, Lampa; San Carlos Borromeo temple, Puno; San Pedro Martir Temple, Juli; Santa Cruz de Jerusalen temple, Juli; Nuestra Senora de Rosario or Santiago Apostol temple, Pomata; San Pedro Temple, Zepita Rural Temples of Cusco: Cusco: 2019 ii, iv (cultural) [39]
La Otra Banda is an archaeological site in northern coastal Peru where a 4,000-year-old temple and theater were discovered in June 2024 by a team of archaeologists from the Field Museum in Chicago. The site is located near the hamlet of La Otra Banda, south of the town of Zaña in the Zaña district of northwestern Peru's Lambayeque region .