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The Best Attractions In Tucume

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Túcume is a pre-Hispanic site in Peru, south of the La Leche River on a plain around La Raya Mountain. It covers an area of over 540 acres and encompassing 26 major pyramids and mounds. The area is referred to as Purgatorio by local people. This site was a major regional center, maybe even the capital of the successive occupations of the area by the Lambayeque/Sican , Chimú and Inca . Local shaman healers invoke power of Tucume and La Raya Mountain in their rituals, and local people fear these sites. Hardly anyone other than healers venture out in this site at night. The vast plains of Túcume are part of the Lambayeque region, the largest valley of ...
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  • 1. Tucume Pyramids Tucume
    Túcume is a pre-Hispanic site in Peru, south of the La Leche River on a plain around La Raya Mountain. It covers an area of over 540 acres and encompassing 26 major pyramids and mounds. The area is referred to as Purgatorio by local people. This site was a major regional center, maybe even the capital of the successive occupations of the area by the Lambayeque/Sican , Chimú and Inca . Local shaman healers invoke power of Tucume and La Raya Mountain in their rituals, and local people fear these sites. Hardly anyone other than healers venture out in this site at night. The vast plains of Túcume are part of the Lambayeque region, the largest valley of the north coast of Peru. The Lambayeque Valley is the site of scores of natural and man-made waterways and is also a region of about 250 dec...
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  • 4. Huaca Rajada Sipan
    Huaca Rajada, also known as Sipán, is a Moche archaeological site in northern Peru in the Lambayeque Valley, that is famous for the tomb of Lord of Sipán , excavated by Walter Alva and his wife Susana Meneses beginning in 1987. The city of Sipán is dated from 50–700 AD, the same time as the Moche Period.
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