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264 places in the atlas, 17 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (Nazca 5–7, 200 BCE–600 CE) · Lucanas Nazca–Huarpa canyon groups
24 western gorge-head figures at Jaccra 3650 m: arms-aloft giants + spiral and 110 m gorge-arrow to springs.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Wari-Chuquibamba · Wari-influenced Chuquibamba/Majes
60+ volcanic-pavement geoglyphs (600-1200 CE) beside Toro Muerto petroglyphs, Majes Valley ritual plateau.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Middle Horizon (Wari) with Early Intermediate roots · Wari / Majes rock-art style
Western periphery (620 m) of the 5 km² Toro Muerto boulder field (Dead Bull), the largest Andean petroglyph complex: ~3,000 volcanic boulders engraved (Wari 500-1000 CE, with earlier Preceramic).
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Inka Late Horizon · Hypothetical Inka / Amazónico
Hypothetical Inambari petroglyph ridge — 22 boulder claim vs erratics and fault scarp.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (Wari–Chuquibamba) · Siguas / Wari / Chuquibamba
22 cleared-pavement anthropomorphs and trapezoids (600–1200 CE) on Sihuas bluffs above Toro Muerto.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Archaic to Middle Horizon (Tiwanaku–Wari interaction) · Tiwanaku–Huari interface / Tacna coastal–altiplano
>500 boulders and 40+ desert lines (400–1000 CE peak) at Tacna's Caplina desert gateway.
🇵🇪 Peru · Cave
Lithic – Preceramic (c.12000–8000 BCE earliest; 8600 BCE cultigens) · Andean Lithic / Guitarrero tradition
Guitarrero Cave is a shallow limestone rockshelter on the west flank of the Cordillera Blanca above the Santa River at 2,580 m near Yungay, Ancash.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Late Formative to Early Intermediate (Salinar–Recuay) · Salinar / Recuay (Pashash)
40+ Salinar–Recuay cleared-pavement geoglyphs (500 BCE–400 CE) on Santa Valley quebrada fans.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Pleistocene? contested 20,000 BP + secure Early Holocene 9,000 BCE – Formative 1800 BCE · Pacaicasa – Ayacucho Preceramic → Wari?
Deep limestone cave 30 m entrance, 13 m depth in Ayacucho basin: stratified sequence spanning Pleistocene to Formative with contested earliest layers (Pikimachay phase 20,000–12,000 BP lithic…
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Initial Period to Late Horizon ~1500 BCE–1532 CE · Andean (Chavín-influenced to Inca)
450 boulder petroglyph field above Chillón River with 3,500-year rayed-head tradition.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Inca Late Horizon ca.1470 CE · Inca
2.28-m granite boulder with 203 miniature carvings, ca.1470 Inca hydraulic model.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Early Holocene (~9500–7000 BCE) · Andean high-desert hunter-gatherer (Toquepala tradition)
Shallow Andean quebrada cave where Roger Ravines documented polychrome paintings of camelids, deer and corpulent hunters brandishing bows, one of the earliest figurative traditions on the Pacific…
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate ~900–1450 CE · Wari to Collagua / Inca fringe
5,000-boulder petroglyph desert - world's densest - Wari-Collagua dancers over 10 km².
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Paracas to Early Nazca ~800 BCE–400 CE · Paracas–Nazca
Nazca-basin boulder petroglyphs bridging Paracas trophy-head art to Nazca geoglyphs.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Intermediate 1000–1470 CE Chachapoya rock art and chullpa-mast tombs · Chachapoyas
High cloud-forest complex at 2950 m southeast of Leimebamba: overhang shelter 30 m long retains 200+ red ochre paintings (anthropomorphs, camelids, geometric) and adjacent rectangular chullpa…
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Classical · Classical
Classical rock-art at Huanuco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic rock-art at Huanuco.
