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Pachacámac (Quechua: Pachakamaq) is an archaeological site 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the Lurín River. The site was first settled around A.D. 200 and was named after the "Earth Maker" creator god Pacha Kamaq. The site flourished for about 1,300 years until the Spanish invaded.
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.
In 2012, excavation in the Pachacamac site yielded a burial chamber with more than 80 mummified remains, and a dozen infant remains. Along with the skeletons, this site also contained various artifacts, including ceramic wares, jewellery, and animal remains.
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.
The Lima culture was an indigenous civilization which existed in modern-day Lima, Peru during the Early Intermediate Period, extending from roughly 100 to 650. This pre-Incan culture, which overlaps with surrounding Paracas, Moche, and Nasca civilizations, was located in the desert coastal strip of Peru in the Chillon, Rimac and Lurin River valleys.
Huaca Pucllana or Huaca Juliana [1] (possibly from Quechua wak'a a local shrine to a protector deity, a sacred place, sacred, pukllana game) [2] is a great adobe and clay pyramid located in the Miraflores district of central Lima, Peru, built from seven staggered platforms.
In 2012, using LiDAR technology, archaeologist Christopher Fisher [1] and team detected more than 40,000 foundations at the site, roughly the same as Manhattan, on a territory of approximately 25 square kilometres (9.7 sq mi) (less than half of Manhattan's 59 square kilometres (23 sq mi).
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.