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Huaca Pucllana is a stepped clay pyramid in the modern Miraflores district of Lima, Peru, built between approximately 200 and 700 CE by the Lima culture during the Early Intermediate Period. The pyramid rises 25 metres above the surrounding cityscape in seven receding terraces of small adobe bricks set vertically in a "bookshelf" technique that gives the structure remarkable seismic flexibility — it has survived more than fifteen centuries of Peruvian earthquakes essentially intact. The bricks are made of clay quarried locally and dried in the sun. Huaca Pucllana served as a ceremonial and administrative centre for the Lima culture and contains numerous elite burials, including the 2010 discovery of a Wari-period female mummy with surface offerings. Investigations by Isabel Flores Espinoza for the Pucllana Site Museum since 1981 have exposed the upper terraces.
Huaca Pucllana is a pyramid built of small bricks set vertically on edge, surviving fifteen hundred years of earthquakes by being designed to flex.