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“You don’t need to be an archaeology buff to get something out of the Lima huacas-though if you are, you’ll be thrilled to visit them,” says Richard Leonardi, the Latin American Travel Consultant at Wild Frontiers. The Wari people later arrived, sometime around 500, and built more important structures.” Only after that did the Incas travel from Lake Titicaca, known as the birthplace of the Incas, to Pachacamac, where they built their sacred Temple of the Sun, which still attract shamans and pilgrims from throughout the country to this day.
“The Lima people started construction sometime around 200 AD and used it for living. “You can learn the entire history of Peru if you study the construction of the huacas,” says Pozzi Escot, who points to Pachacamac as the perfect example. No two huacas are the same, but a visit to any shines a light on their shared history. Hopefully, as the local appreciation has grown, so too will that of those visiting.Įven larger and more significant huacas can be found just outside the city's borders, including the massive Pachacamac, a little over an hour’s drive to the south, and Caral, which is believed to be the first city in the Americas and lies just three hours to the north. But now it’s a museum, there’s research, there’s a restaurant.” She says more communities are working to protect these important pieces of history in their neighborhoods. Nobody was researching it, and it wasn’t even considered an archaeological site. “Twenty years ago, people were riding bicycles on it. “Huaca Pucllana is an example of how things can change with the huacas in Lima,” says Denise Pozzi Escot, the director of archaeological studies for Peru’s Ministry of Culture.