Una vista sobre Pachacamac

Last October we went to Peru and visited the ruins of Pachacamac, about 40 km southeast of Lima in the Lurin River valley. The site was settled around AD 200 and was named after the “Earth Maker” creator god Pacha Kamaq by inhabitants who predate the Inca. The site flourished for about 1,300 years until the Spanish showed up with slightly different plans for the region.

Pachacamac was part of the Inca Trail but doesn’t have the profile of Machu Picchu. So it doesn’t get the same volume of tourism. But it’s still an important archaeological site. Excavations began in 1890 and have continued, off and on, since then. Many structures remain only partially excavated; bones and burial cloths are openly visible.

Pachacamac was the name of the ship that carried the abducted Professor Calculus in The Seven Crystal Balls of The Adventures of Tintin. In the next book, Prisoners of the Sun, Pachacamac was the name of the Sun god worshiped by an ancient Incan tribe still active in South America. In the sixth book, The Broken Ear, a wooden head of Pachacamac is exhibited in the museum of Ethnography in Brussels. (Wikipedia)