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Multi-periodSite Name: Huaca el PuebloCountry: Peru
NOTE: This site is 36.732 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Chiclayo, Peru Nearest Village: Salitral. Peru
Latitude: 6.9921S Longitude: 79.6327W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Pyramid / Mastaba in Lambayeque Department, Peru.
The monumental structures at this site were built in the time period of the Moche (~500 AD). Huaco el Pueblo ("ruin of the town"), originally a stepped pyramid, is the largest structure at the site at 80 m by 55 m and over 17 meters tall.
Finds at this site span Cuspisnique, Moche, Lambayeque and Inca cultures (300 BC through 1400 AD).
The current archaeological project is conducted by Dr. Steve Bourget and Bruno Alva Meneses, of the University of Texas, Austin, and the Museo de las Tumbas Reales de Sipán, respectively. The objective has been to study signs of social and political organizations at six Moche sites. Finds have included unlooted tombs of individuals wearing regalia previously seen depicted in ceramics. The major example has been a man now called, the Lord of Ucupe.
Note: Similarities between this tomb and Sipán sites may challenge a widely held theory that northern Moche settlements were highly independent.
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