Puruchuco

Puruchuco is an archaeological site in Peru that was an administrative center of the Inca period (1438–1533), located in the Ate District, in Lima.

Puruchuco is located in the sector Huaquerones, a land of pyramids with ramps that contains one of the largest cemeteries in the Inca culture, have recently been studied by archeology.

There are also complex areas as Puruchuca, San Juan de Pariachi and Huaycán.

The restoration of the palace and the protection of the archeological zone was initiated by Dr. Francisco Iriarte Brenner and continued by Dr. Arturo Jiménez Borja between 1953 and 1961.

[1] Today it has a site museum,[2] which was the first tourist model of this type in South America.