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<< Our Photo Pages >> Huaca Pucllana - Pyramid / Mastaba in Peru

Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 17 November 2010  Page Views: 10850

Multi-periodSite Name: Huaca Pucllana
Country: Peru
NOTE: This site is 2.166 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Lima
Latitude: 12.1101S  Longitude: 77.0337W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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davidmorgan visited on 31st Jul 2019 An amazing edifice - all those bricks!

bat400 visited on 19th Sep 2018 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3

MartinJEley visited on 11th Apr 2016 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 5 The site access is controlled and there is an admission fee. Exploring the site is by guided tour only with a guide, in English or Spanish at least. Although portions are damaged, or remain to be excavated, there are sufficient structures visible to be able to appreciate the pyramid and many of the other buildings. Interpretative material, a small museum, and a scale model help to explain the site and what is known about it. The tour took a little over an hour and I found it to be very informative. I would recommend it to anyone with time to spare in the Miraflores area of Lima.

mfrincu visited on 2nd Apr 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Large complex still partly unexcavated.



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.33 Ambience: 3.33 Access: 4.33

Huaca Pucllana
Huaca Pucllana submitted by mfrincu : Ancient Pyramid complex in the middle of the Miraflores neighborhood. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Pyramid in Lima, Peru.
The massive multilevel adobe brick pyramid lies in what is now the Miraflores neighborhood of Lima. It was originally built by people of the Lima culture (200AD - 700AD) but was used by successive cultures up to the Inca conquest. The pyramid and surrounding site were originally a ceremonial complex with plazas and ramps and stairs to platforms at different levels on the pyramid.

Later use by the Wari culture (600CE - 1100CE) included using the pyramid as a cemetery with tombs excavated and built into the pyramid. The Wari also expanded the site surroundings to include living areas for a priesthood and/or administrators. Still later, the site continued to see use during the Inca Empire.
Research and excavations continue. A museum and visitor facilities are on site, including a highly promoted up-scale restaurant.

Note: See comment for story of the undisturbed tomb of a Wari weaver, buried with the tools of her trade.
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Huaca Pucllana
Huaca Pucllana submitted by davidmorgan : This is an incredible edifice built entirely of mud bricks. I did a quick guestimate and come up with a number of almost a billion bricks (at 400 per cubic metre). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Huaca Pucllana submitted by davidmorgan : View from the administrative area towards the pyramid. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Huaca Pucllana submitted by davidmorgan : The massive structure seen from the street on the east side. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Huaca Pucllana submitted by MartinJEley : This view of some of the buildings also serves to illustrate how this site has survived in modern Lima. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Huaca Pucllana submitted by MartinJEley : Adjacent to the pyramid is a large ceremonial square as shown here.

Huaca Pucllana
Huaca Pucllana submitted by MartinJEley : The construction, as shown here in detail, is entirely of mud bricks.

Huaca Pucllana
Huaca Pucllana submitted by MartinJEley : The way in which the mud bricks were made is shown here. The site is an original brick making location and the figures are modern additions.

Huaca Pucllana
Huaca Pucllana submitted by MK38416 : There are similarities in both pyramids - this one and Huaca Huallamarca that is located a few km away - construction technology and wall cladding with yellow material/mineral called Limonite (limonita in Spanish). It's almost gone. Originally all walls were yellow, like gold:)

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Huaca Pucllana submitted by MK38416 : Huaca Pucllana pyramid, just in the middle of a street. And sacrifices... Photo credit: Maria Korh, @MK38416 on Twitter

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Huaca Pucllana submitted by MK38416

Huaca Pucllana
Huaca Pucllana submitted by MK38416

Huaca Pucllana
Huaca Pucllana submitted by MartinJEley : Archaeologists have found a number of skeletons, mummified in a fetal position, in this small shrine on the pyramid.

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Re: Huaca Pucllana by Andy B on Saturday, 16 March 2024
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Video here from Maria Korh - requires Twitter login:
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Re: Four Wari mummies unearthed at Lima's Huaca Pucllana by ryszard on Sunday, 07 August 2011
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The Huaca Pucllana site now covers about 10 acres and this is considered to be about one third of the original area of the base of the "pyramid" and its plaza, the rest having been used for road and house building material, and has been built-over.
The structure is made entirely of sun-dried adobe bricks which have survived the almost 2000 years of its existence owing to the fact that it never rains in Lima has not done so for 5000 years and maybe more.
It is true that this is somewhat of a hyperbole, a wet mist appears from the Pacific and hangs on for days at certain seasons. But the water drops in the mist are tiny, seldom big enough to see, there is never a period of soaking rain and though the Lima ladies like to buy various water resistant articles of fashion, the men do not, and one never will see an umbrella in use. Downpours of rain and thunderstorms are unknown. Readers familiar with the Pembrokeshire drizzling fogs will get the idea if they imagine those at 1/20th to 1/100th of their intensity. (The surrounding countryside, just as the entire coast of Peru, is a rather dirty-looking sand desert. The fogs/mists are all thanks to the cold Humboldt current which keeps the coast, so near the equator, at a cool 10-18C in the winter, rarely allows a 30C, or more, day in summer, and allows the fishermen in Peru to account for a 10% share of the world's catch).
And the way the bricks were laid made the whole structure safe from the frequent and at times very severe earthquakes.
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Re: Four Wari mummies unearthed at Lima's Huaca Pucllana by ryszard on Thursday, 18 November 2010
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Will be in Miraflores/Lima at Xmas-New Year. Hope to send fotos later.
ryszard
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Four Wari mummies unearthed at Lima's Huaca Pucllana by bat400 on Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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A tomb with four mummies belonging to the Wari culture, known for using the pyramidal structures of the cultures they conquered on the coast as burial sites, has been discovered in Lima’s Huaca Pucllana.

The mummies date from around 850AD according to the site director Flores Espinosa, explaining that the principle remains are that of a woman, probably a master weaver, who was accompanied by two babies and a young child.

The newly discovered tomb was found completely undisturbed, not the case in most of the other 62 tombs found over the past 5 years of intensive archaeological study, all funded by tourism. Most of these tombs have been damaged in some way in either colonial, republican or modern times.

Still encapsulated in the rope and fabric of the burial bundle yet to be opened, there were also found with a number of sewing needles, threads and semi-completed textiles, suggesting an occupation.

The bundle is still covered with brown textile, and other red with white figures. A number of cups and vases were also found, along with a hollowed-out pumpkin that seems to have been fashioned as a drinking vessel.

According to Flores, it is difficult to tell if the remains of the children found with the woman were members of her family, whether they were sacrifices from her family or of some others – sometimes offered up voluntarily.

For more, including wonderful photos, see enperublog.com.
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Pre-Incan female Wari mummy unearthed in Peru by bat400 on Thursday, 28 August 2008
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Archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,300-year-old female mummy in a residential area of the Peruvian capital.

The woman was from the Wari culture, said archaeologist Isabel Flores, who heads work at the Huaca Pucllana, a mud-brick complex several blocks large located in the Miraflores district of Lima.

"It is an important find, because we have found over the years several tombs that have been looted, but never one that was intact," Flores told AFP on Tuesday. Flores described the find as "a multiple tomb in which three funeral bundles were found. One has an impressive mask with the human characteristics of a woman."

The multi-layer fabric funeral bundles contain the mummies of the deceased, who were placed in a crouching position with their knees under their chin.

The mask has an aquiline nose, narrow lips, large eyes with white iris and round black pupils. The other mummies are believed to be those of a child and an adult.

The Waris were an influential Andean society that thrived between 700 and 1000. At its height the Wari kingdom encompassed much of the Peruvian Andes and coastal region.

Flores said the Waris commonly attached funeral masks to the mummies of noble women.

For more, see the Reuters article. The Daily Mail includes multiple photographs.
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    Peru: Three Lima Pre-Inca mummies examined by X-rays by bat400 on Friday, 12 September 2008
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    The three 1,300-year-old mummies recently found in Huaca Pucllana ruins (Lima) were examined by X-rays yesterday to take a look inside these funeral bundles before opening and studying them.

    Head archaeologist Isabel Flores said X-rays would help determine the position of the human remains without cutting the mummies open.
    "The interesting thing about these mummies is that they are the first to be found intact in this archaeological site. The study of these mummies will help us learn more about the burial techniques of the Wari culture," Flores added.

    On Tuesday, August 26, a team of Peruvian archaeologists excavating a pyramid at the Huaca Pucllana site found three 1,300-year old mummies from the Wari culture, including a woman with a mask with striking blue eyes.

    Huaca Pucllana is a Pre-Incan temple complex which was used by both the Wari and Lima cultures. It is situated in the midst of the modern Limean district of Miraflores, with an area of five hectares.

    For more, see the news from ANDINA.
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