PACHACAMAC


Meaning of PACHACAMAC in English

Site of a pre-Incan city, southeast of Lima , Peru.

It has remains of a temple to the god Pachacamac, a later Incan Temple of the Sun, and the ruins of the surrounding city. The earlier temple and terraced adobe pyramid date from с 200 BC to AD 600. The city was sacked by Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro с 1523 and is now occupied by the village of La Mamacoma.

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