Huaca Pucllana
The lost Civilization
Just another day I spewed words (talked) to myself It’s not that horrible, I mean at least it’s not school, school. You have a point I responded… to myself.
“Well at least it’s Thursday”. My friend Matthew sighed with the tone of someone who’s 105% tired.
“Whoop de-do, I can’t believe that they make us come to school”.
The rest of the grade was on a field trip for the week and we had to still go to our school Colegio Roosevelt.
I replied with the same tone. It’s Thursday if you couldn’t tell and I’m going to the ruins! *sarcasm*. Not that I haven’t already but either way I’m here. It’s about 9 A.M and bus finally reached our destination. The Pre — Inca ruins, Huaca Pucllana. It’s located in Lima, Peru at this Address : Calle General Borgoño cuadra 8 S/n, Lima). It’s open everyday of the week except Sunday from 9:00 A.m — 5:00 P.m. prices aren’t too bad at a S./1 entry. If it’s a sunny day then I suggest bringing a bit of sunscreen depending on how long you plan on taking. If it’s cloudy on the other hand don’t bother. It won’t be too bad.
(Calle General Borgoño cuadra 8 S/n, Lima)
“Come on”. I grunted as I walked off the bus, Matthew right behind me. We got to the “lobby” of the establishment and waited for about another half hour. The site isn’t much for first impressions but it is quite the area. Half of the site is still covered in sand and dust and on estimate is about 50–60 feet tall. It’s made out of a clay like substance and the bricks are placed vertically instead of horizontally. I’d say it’s about a quarter to a half a mile long and the rest of the dig sites are scattered around the city.
Huaca Pucllana, likewise Pucllana or Huaca Juliana, is an incredible adobe and earth pyramid situated in the Miraflores region of focal Lima, Peru, constructed from seven amazed stages. It takes its name from the Quechua word “pucllay,” signifying “amusement,” which completely can be interpreted as “a spot for custom diversions.” It served as a vital stately and authoritative community for the progression of the Lima Culture, a general public which created in the Peruvian Focal Coast between the years of 200 Commercial and 700 Notice.
With the planned motivation behind having the first class pastors (who politically administered a few valleys in the region) express their complete religious force and capacity to control the utilization of all the regular water assets (saltwater and freshwater) of the zone, an Awesome Pyramid was built in the Huaca.
All in all, the structure is encompassed by a court, or focal square, that outskirts as far as possible, and by an extensive organized divider partitioning it into two separate segments. In one area there were seats and confirmation of profound pits where offerings of fish and other marine life occurred with a specific end goal to accomplish the support of the divine beings. The other segment is a managerial range. This range contains different little dirt structures and cabins made of adobe–with a few dividers still standing–whose capacity appeared to be to go about as the yards and porches of the walled in area which is more than 500 meters long, 100 in width and 22 in stature.
Different remains have been revealed having a place with the Wari Society (500 Notice 900 Promotion), which was an immediate impact on the Lima society towards the finishes of its time period. Of specific note are the remaining parts of the “Señor de los Unkus” (The Master of the Unkus), which had a place with the first tomb inside of the formal focus to have been found totally in place. This tomb holds three separate interment covers containing the remaining parts of three adults–two of which have masks–and those of a relinquished
“So much waiting” Matthew pointed out “why are we even doing this again”?
“Who knows” I exchanged looks with him “maybe to improve your “knowledge” of the world.” We both laughed hysterically. As we waited the vending machine got attacked by a swarm of tiny mongrols. Or were they just 7th graders? I don’t remember, but most of the drinks were gone within 5 minutes which admittedly is pretty impressive.
“Numbers 1–20 line up behind me” Mr. Marquez called in demand. The first 20 people went on their part of the tour while the rest of us waited even more.
“I’m just about ready to walk back to the school dude”. Matthew spit agitated.
“Calm down man, we don’t have a choice so might as well make the best of it”. I suggested. About another 15 minutes passed and then finally Mr. marquez called for the rest of us. We lined up in a line that was about as straight as a circle. We took a different path than the kids before us and veered off to left. We saw some mannequin looking things that didn’t fit in with the exhibit at all.
Matthew bet that the entire thing was made up. I didn’t disagree. There was a bunch of concrete under the dust. And it was surrounded by buildings with a restaurant (Restaurant Huaca Pucllana, Cdra 8, Calle General Borgoño)
You could literally walk onto the balcony of just by stepping off the archaeological site. The rest looked the really generic and bland up until when we walked to the top of dig. When you looked out you could see so much. You could see The mountain a ways out and the city looked like New York. Just a lot shorter. There was also for some explainable reason sand on the top. Even though it was all dusty at the bottom which to me made no logical sense.
It was a pretty cloudy day as well. No sun light (as usual) and it looked extremely depressing. It made me tired just looking at the sky. At this point we were about half way through the tour and everyone just didn’t bother to pay attention at this point including me. After that we just circled back to the beginning. In total we were there for just around 2 ½ to 3 HOURS which is absolutely gruesome. The bus ride back was about 50 minutes itself which was horrendous. All and all I’d say it’s a pretty interesting place to go, for anyone new to Lima that is.
