Tumshukaiko

Tumshukaiko stands near Caraz in the Callejón de Huaylas, facing the snow-covered Cordillera Blanca. Its ancient monumental platform and smaller surrounding structures testify to a ceremonial centre established thousands of years before the Inca Empire. The site belongs to a long sequence of settlement in the Santa River valley, where communities built substantial works in stone and earth between the high mountain ranges of northern Peru.