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Moxeke (Pampa de las Llamas)

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9.5070°S, 78.2260°W GIZA 61.41° DIST 12,393 km
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Coordinates9.5070°S, 78.2260°W
Giza Bearing61.41°
Distance12,393 km

9.5070°S, 78.2260°W.

Moxeke, also called Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, is an Initial Period twin-mound complex in the Casma Valley of Ancash, Peru, dated approximately 1800 to 1200 BCE. The site is organized around a 1.2-kilometre axial alignment between two principal mounds — Moxeke at the southwest end and Huaca A at the northeast — separated by an open plaza flanked by symmetrical rows of smaller residential and ritual structures. Moxeke itself is a stepped platform 30 metres tall built of stone and conical adobe, with a frontal niche row that originally held large polychrome clay busts of supernatural figures, recorded by Julio C. Tello in the 1930s before they were lost to weathering. Huaca A contains a series of small storage cells with sealed burials. The dual-mound axial layout is among the earliest examples of bilateral monumental planning in the Andes.

Survey by Shelia and Thomas Pozorski since the 1970s has documented the residential compounds between the two principal mounds.

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