Huacatambo

Huacatambo is an adobe archaeological complex east of Samanco Bay on the northern Peruvian coast. Its buildings stood near an old route running along the coastal valleys. A colonial account appears to place an Inca way station, or tambo, at the site, where earlier structures were adapted with a plaza. Travelers on the coastal road could pass through this landscape of settlements, desert and cultivated river valleys between Casma and the north.

The later city of Chimbote lies here.