Wanuco Marka

Wanuco Marka, also known as Huánuco Pampa, was a major Inca administrative and ceremonial centre on the highland road connecting Cuzco and Quito. Its planned layout included a vast central plaza, a ceremonial platform or ushnu, large halls, a palace area and storage buildings. State representatives used the centre to organise relationships and resources across surrounding provinces.

In 1539 Spanish settlers founded a city of Huánuco at the Inca site, but this settlement was short-lived and moved to the Pillco valley. The earlier centre remained known as Huánuco Viejo. Its stone buildings and open plaza preserve evidence of the organisation of a provincial Inca centre and its brief colonial reuse.