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🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid

Vichama Pyramid Complex (Huaura)

Late Preceramic (Norte Chico late to crisis) · Norte Chico / Caral-related (Vichama culture)

Late Preceramic city Vichama (3800–1700 BCE) Huaura Valley: 28 m Building A pyramid famed for 1700 BCE drought/starvation friezes gaping figures — Late Preceramic collapse mural.