COMPLEX ARQUEOLOGICO HUACA THE SENTRY - LA CENTINELA

HUACA THE SENTRY

The Huaca the Sentry was a great urban center with ceremonial functions administrative, that were constructed in the denominated period intermediate tardio (1100-1350 d.C) and later modified during the horizon tardio (1350-1532) with the annexation from great señorio Chincha to the Empire of the Incas of the Cusco (approximately the 1470 d.C). This arqueologico complex is constituted by 14 monticulos between piramides and platforms emphasizing among them a great structure of piramidal form towards the side the West, and which many investigators recognize like the temple of the Chinchaycamac, that in prehispanicos times was the main huaca portable altar and of the Chinchanos.

HUACA TAMBO DE MORA

The Sentry, together with Inn of Moor and the Cumbe comprises of a same urban set, quite great and complex, that was the center of the power of señorio but important of the South coast of Peru.

Before the Spanish conquest señorio of Bothers densely was populated, segun a document of century XVI call "the Warning", the population of this valley was organized in 6000 merchants, 10000 fishermen and 12000 agriculturists. Chincha emphasized being one of the strong towns but and even did several expeditions single-breasted uniform jackets to the mountain range arriving until the Collao in present Bolivia.

HUACA LA CUMBE

The importance of this señorio even stayed with the arrival and imposition of the regime Inca, is possible to emphasize to it a very well-known episode and commented by the cronistas of the Spanish conquest in which it talks about the gentleman of It bothers as the unico personage loaded in you walk like Atahuallpa. They tell that a day I ask to Francisco Pizarro the captive Inca the reason to him of this privilege, to which respondio Atahuallpa that was a friend his, of the greater Gentleman of the Level ones, and which disponia of one hundred thousand rafts in the sea.

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