Túcume - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Túcume - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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 and encompassing 26 major pyramids and mounds.Shimada, Izumi. "The Late Prehispanic Coastal States." In The Inca World: The Development of Pre-Columbian Peru, edited by L. Laurencich Minelli, pp.49-82. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 The area is referred to as Purgatorio (purgatory) by local people. Read more on Wikipedia
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