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Archaeological & historic sites in Peru
Peru has 137 archaeological & historic sites on Detourmap — ancient ruins, tombs, ghost towns, shipwrecks, catacombs, mines, battlefields and crash sites. The best known is Machu Picchu. All of them are below.
- Archaeological
- 137
- Oldest
- Montegrande, Peru 3100 BC
- Little known
- 109 of 137
- Most from
- 20th century
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1.Machu Picchu
Archaeological · 15th century · Iconic
15th-century Inca citadel in the Peruvian Andes and UNESCO World Heritage Site
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2.Nazca lines
Archaeological · 2nd century BC · Iconic
Large geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Peru
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82.Ancon necropolis
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Pre-Hispanic cemetery of thousands of tombs of different cultures such as Chancay, Lima, Chavín, Huari, among others. Located north of the city of Lima in Peru.
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126.Huaca Huantinamarca
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in San Miguel District, Peru
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135.José Carlos Mariátegui Museum
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Cultural heritage site in Peru
Questions about this page
How many archaeological & historic sites are there in Peru?
137 on this map, out of 14,002 worldwide. That is what Wikidata records for Peru with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article — the real number on the ground is larger, and for some countries much larger.
What is the best known of the archaeological & historic sites in Peru?
Machu Picchu, 15th century. 15th-century Inca citadel in the Peruvian Andes and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Which is the oldest?
Montegrande, Peru, dated to 3100 BC. 18 of these 137 carry a founding date, 9 of them from before the year 1000.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.