Cerro Baúl
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| height | 2585 m | |
| location | Moquegua , Peru | |
| Coordinates | 17 ° 6 '50 " S , 70 ° 51' 48" W | |
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The coat of arms of the Moquegua region shows the Cerro Baúl.
The Cerro Baúl is a table mountain in Peru . It is located in the Moquegua region , 11 kilometers northeast of Moquegua . Since the mountain was a site of the Wari culture until around the year 1000 , it is now a ground monument . There are extensive remains of settlements on the mountain that have been excavated by employees of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago since it was discovered in the 1980s . The coat of arms of the Moquegua region shows the Cerro Baúl.
literature
- Patrick Ryan Williams: Cerro Baúl: A Wari center on the Tiwanaku frontier. In: Latin American Antiquity 12, 2001, pp. 67-83 ( PDF ).
Web links
Commons : Cerro Baúl - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Proyecto Arqueológico Cerro Baúl , website of the Field Museum of Natural History Chicago with extensive literature
- Cerro Baúl , Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo
- Aerial view of the settlement remains
