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🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Chimú (Chan Chan culture) · Chimú (Chimor kingdom)
Chimú rainbow-dragon relief pyramid Huaca del Dragón (800–1400 CE) north of Chan Chan: 7.5 m double platform with vault niches and coiled two-headed dragon friezes.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate, Chimú (1100–1470 CE) · Chimú
North Trujillo square adobe pyramid enclosed by high double wall with 14 intact 2 m rainbow serpent (dragon) reliefs alternating with Chimú processional figures along outer wall.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate, Chimú (900–1470 CE) · Chimú
Adjoining Chan Chan’s outskirts three blocks from Mansiche temple in urbanization La Esmeralda, this Chimú adobe pyramid is a U-shaped two-level mass with three terraces, ramps and courtyard…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Lambayeque–Chimú–Inca) · Lambayeque / Chimú / Inca
Northern extension of Túcume’s Huaca Larga — 150 m platform 20 m high c.1450 CE showing progressive northward growth of 26-pyramid valley city.
🇵🇪 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 · Pyramid
Late Intermediate (Lambayeque 1000–1350 → Chimú 1350–1470 → Inca 1470–1532) · Lambayeque (Sicán) → Chimú → Inca
Valley of 26 adobe trunk-pyramids (1000–1532) on plain around eroded Cerro La Raya hill: Lambayeque/Sicán then Chimú then Inca 26 pyramids 12–25 m high (Huaca Larga 700 m long largest adobe pyramid…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chimú · Chimú (Chanchan)
Largest adobe city in world: capital of Chimú Kingdom (850–1470) covering 20 km² with 10 walled citadels (ciudadelas) with friezes of pelicans and lattice, reservoirs, adobe walls.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Chimú – Late Intermediate 1200–1532 CE · Chimú → Inca
Chimú hill-fort four walls, Inca tambo after 1470.
