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Still, Pachacamac was allowed an unusual amount of independence from the Inca Empire. [2] By the time the Tawantinsuyu (Inca Empire) invaded the area, the valleys of the Rímac and Lurín had a small state which the people called Ichma. They used Pachacamac primarily as a religious site for the veneration of Pacha Kamaq, the creator god. The ...
Tahuantinsuyu adopted Pacha Kamaq when they incorporated the Ichma into their empire. In late Inca mythology he was the father of Inti and Mama Killa , and husband of Mama Pacha . [ 2 ] The Wari , the Pachacamac empire , Chancay , Chimor and Ichma possessed the city of Pachacamac at some point but it is unknown if any other peoples, apart from ...
The Ichma kingdom (also written Ychma or Yschma, among other spellings) or Pachacamac kingdom [1] [2] was a pre-Inca indigenous polity later absorbed by the Inca Empire and reorganized as a wanami (province). For the Inca it was known as Pachakamaq (Pachacamac), rather than its original name of Ishma.
The National Museum of Peru is a national museum in Lurín District, Lima, Peru, located within the archaeological zone of Pachacamac.The museum will hold over a half million artifacts of the Pre-Columbian era and Inca Empire, ranging back to 5,000 BCE. [1]
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.
Before the Spanish conquest, Huaycán de Pariachi was one of the main administrative centers of the middle Rímac Valley.During the Late Intermediate Period (900 - 1450 AD) the Ichma [12] had a very important local presence, which lasted until the Late Horizon (1450 - 1532 AD), when the Incas [9] arrived on the central coast and assimilated them.
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Rostworowski served as vice-president of The National Academy of History (Academia Nacional de Historia), as director of National Museum of History from 1975 to 1980, and was a principal resident scholar at the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP) in Lima. [3] She turned 100 in August 2015. [4]