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Garagay is an Initial Period U-shaped ceremonial complex in the San Martin de Porres district of northern Lima, dated approximately 1400 to 800 BCE. The site consists of three platform mounds arranged in a U opening to the northeast, the largest rising 23 metres above the modern surface and constructed of tapia mud walls and adobe blocks. Excavations by Rogger Ravines and William Isbell beginning in 1974 exposed a ceremonial atrium on the central platform decorated with polychrome clay reliefs depicting a fanged anthropomorphic figure surrounded by spider attendants. The reliefs are among the earliest examples of monumental religious iconography on the Peruvian coast and prefigure the supernatural imagery of the later Chavin tradition. Garagay belongs to the U-shaped temple tradition of the Lima coast that includes La Florida and El Paraiso.
The principal mounds still rise above the modern street grid that has grown around the site, the central atrium preserved beneath a protective shed.