Cahuachi

Cahuachi was a great Nasca ceremonial center in the desert of southern Peru, overlooking the Nazca River valley. Its builders raised broad adobe platforms, truncated pyramids and plazas in a landscape where water was precious. People gathered there for ceremonies, bringing offerings and finely made textiles and pottery. Much of the complex was abandoned as a major center by the fourth century, long before the rise of the Inca Empire, leaving monumental earthen structures beside the valley.