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The sites, located 100 miles (160 km) north of Lima, developed a trade between coastal fisherman and cotton growers and built monumental pyramids around the 30th century BCE. [ 4 ] During the pre-Columbian era , the peoples who dominated the territory now known as Peru spoke languages, such as: Quechua , Aymara , Jivaroan , Tsimané , Tallán ...
The Andean civilizations were South American complex societies of many indigenous people. [1] They stretched down the spine of the Andes for 4,000 km (2,500 miles) from southern Colombia, to Ecuador and Peru, including the deserts of coastal Peru, to north Chile and northwest Argentina.
The trade bloc was called the Andean Pact until 1996 and came into existence when the Cartagena Agreement was signed in 1969. Its headquarters are in Lima, Peru. The Andean Community has 113 million inhabitants over an area of 4,700,000 km 2. Its GDP has gone up to US$745.300 billion in 2005, including Venezuela, which was a member at the time.
The Chanka people lived in the Huancavelica, Ayacucho, and Apurímac regions of Peru. The Huanca people of the Junín Region of Peru spoke Quechua before the Incas did. The Inca established the largest empire of the pre-Columbian era. The Chincha, an extinct merchant kingdom of the Chincha Islands of Peru.
The plateau is located at the latitude of the widest part of the north–south-trending Andes. The bulk of the Altiplano lies in Bolivia, but its northern parts lie in Peru, and its southwestern fringes lie in Chile. There are on the plateau many towns and several cities, including El Alto and Oruro in Bolivia, Juliaca and Puno in Peru.
Map of Caral-Supe sites showing their locations in Peru Reconstruction of one of the pyramids of Aspero. Caral-Supe civilization was the first civilization in pre-Columbian America, located in modern-day Peru, as well as one of world's oldest civilizations. It coalesced in 3500 BC, and large construction became apparent from 3100 BC.
Wilamaya Patjxa [3] is an ancestral Aymara [4] archaeological site located on the Andean Altiplano in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Puno, Peru.Mobile forager populations occupied the high-altitude (3,925 m) site approximately 9,000 years ago.
The Chachapoyas' territory was located on the eastern slopes of the Andes, in present-day northern Peru. [3] It encompassed the triangular region formed by the confluence of the Marañón River and the Utcubamba in Bagua Province, up to the basin of the Abiseo River where the Gran Pajáten is located. This territory also included land to the ...