Cahuáchi
Cahuáchi is a former cult center of the indigenous Nazca culture and is located 28 kilometers west of today's city of Nazca in Peru .
From 1984 to 1998, under the direction of the Italian Giuseppe Orefici from the Centro Italiano Studi e Ricerche Archeologiche Precolombiane ( CISRAP ), in-depth excavations were carried out on these ruins and the settlement partially reconstructed.
The area covers an area of around 24 square kilometers and contains six step pyramids made of air-dried bricks, the largest of which is around 30 meters high. In addition to the pyramids, there are around 40 other building structures in Cahuáchi. It is one of the largest ceremonial sites known from pre-Columbian times.
Cahuáchi served as a cult center for around 500 years, from the beginning of our era to around 500 AD. The earliest ceramic figures can be dated to around 200 AD.
In the vicinity of Cahuáchi are the well-known floor drawings ( Nazca lines ), which presumably had a cultic function.
literature
- Helaine Silverman: Cahuachi, in the Ancient Nasca World . University of Iowa Press 1993.
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Coordinates: 14 ° 49 ′ 8.4 ″ S , 75 ° 7 ′ 1.1 ″ W.