🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Viracochapampa
Middle Horizon (c.600–800 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Viracochapampa (Quechua Wiraqucha god + pampa plain) is a vast unfinished Wari grid-city 3.5 km north of Huamachuco in the La Libertad highlands at 3,070 m.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon (c.600–800 CE) Wari Empire · Wari (Huari)
Conchopata, 9 km northeast of Ayacucho city at 2,800 m, is the celebrated Wari satellite city where William Isbell and Anita Cook uncovered the empire's face-neck jar cult.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon (c.600–800 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Viracochapampa (Quechua Wiraqucha god + pampa plain) is a vast unfinished Wari grid-city 3.5 km north of Huamachuco in the La Libertad highlands at 3,070 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE (Huarpa antecedent 200 BCE–600 CE) · Wari (Huari, Middle Horizon Andean empire, Quechua predecessor, Ayacucho basin)
Capital of Wari Empire (600–1000 CE) – Andean first empire predating Inca by 400 years, 2,000 ha patchwork city with 7 m-high, 2 m-thick walled enclosures (Moraduchayuq, Vegachayuq Moqo),…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon Wari Empire (600–750 CE, occupied 600–700) · Wari (Huari) imperial colony
Northernmost major Wari provincial center (600–700 CE, abortive) on Cajabamba road 10 km N of Huamachuco at 3100 m: orthogonal Wari cellular town plan 400×500 m with D-shaped temple, plaza, barracks…
