When I visited Ancash, I was very excited of seeing Chavin de Huantar

Chavn de Huantar is an archaeological place. It was declared a World Heritage

Site in 1985. It was an administrative and religious center of the Chavn culture.
One of the most famous structures is the Mayor Temple. Its an outstanding
piece of engineering. Chavin de Huantar isnt the most ancient or the largest or
the most colorful place in the Andean world. But its considered the most
important place of pilgrimage in the ancient Peru. Luis Guillermo Lumbreras
said that Chavin de Huantar is a synthesis of past experiences developed in the
coast, the mountain and the jungle. Also he considers Chavin like one of the
earlier evidences of the civilization in America.
The construction presents a complex network of trails and some interior
galleries. Inside it can be appreciated the monolithic sandeel, a carved stone of
4.54 m of height. It represents an anthropomorphic divinity possibly the most
important in the Chavin pantheon. On the walls of the Mayor temple they could
see a series of nails heads, they represented mythological guardians of the
temple, today there is just one and its in its original place.

When I visited Ancash, I was very excited of seeing Chavin de Huantar

Chavn de Huantar is an archaeological place. It was declared a World Heritage
Site in 1985. It was an administrative and religious center of the Chavn culture.
One of the most famous structures is the Mayor Temple. Its an outstanding
piece of engineering. Chavin de Huantar isnt the most ancient or the largest or
the most colorful place in the ancient Peru. But its considered the most
important place of pilgrimage of the Andean world. Luis Guillermo Lumbreras
said that Chavin de Huantar is a synthesis of past experiences developed in the
coast, the mountain and the jungle. Also he considers Chavin like one of the
earliest evidences of the civilization in America.
The construction presents a complex network of trails and some interior
galleries. Inside it can be appreciated the monolithic sandeel, a carved stone of
4.54 m of height. It represents an anthropomorphic divinity possibly the most
important in the Chavin pantheon. On the walls of the Mayor temple they could
see a series of nails heads, they represented mythological guardians of the
temple, today there is just one and its in its original place.

Its es un sitio arqueolgico o monumento arqueolgico, ubicado en el distrito

de Chavn de Huntar, provincia de Huari, departamento de Ancash, en el Per.
Declarado como Patrimonio de la Humanidad en 1985. Se ubica a 462 km al
noreste de Lima y a 86 km de Huaraz, a una elevacin de 3.177 msnm, en la
Sierra Oriental de ncash al este de la Cordillera Blanca. El complejo se ubica
en la confluencia de los ros Huacheksa y Mosna, en la cuenca alta del ro
Maran, que fue un punto de paso preinca desde la costa hacia la selva, lo
que propici su crecimiento e importancia en la recoleccin de insumos y
trnsito de bienes.1

Fue el centro administrativo y religioso de la cultura chavn, construido y

ocupado aproximadamente entre los aos 1500 y 300 a.C. (Formativo Andino).
Sus estructuras, de forma de pirmide trunca, estn construidas a base de
piedra y argamasa de barro. La estructura ms imponente es la conocida como
El Castillo, llamado tambin Templo Mayor o Templo Nuevo. Es una
muestra sobresaliente del arte de construir de los antiguos peruanos por el alto
grado de perfeccin alcanzado en materia de ingeniera, en el tallado y pulido
de las piedras y en la litoescultura asociada a su arquitectura. A pesar de no
ser el sitio arqueolgico ms antiguo, ni el ms grande, ni el ms vistoso del
Per antiguo, a Chavn de Huntar se le considera como el ms importante
centro de peregrinacin del mundo andino y, de acuerdo a Luis Guillermo
Lumbreras, una sntesis de las experiencias anteriores desarrolladas en la
costa, sierra y selva,2 as como uno de los testimonios ms tempranos de la
civilizacin en Amrica.

La construccin presenta una compleja red de caminos y galeras interiores de

piedra nicamente iluminados por haces de luz que penetran a travs de
ductos estratgicamente dispuestos. En su interior an puede apreciarse el
Lanzn monoltico, piedra tallada de 4,54 m. de altura en la que se observa
representada una divinidad antropomorfa, posiblemente la ms importante del
panten chavn. En los muros del templo principal se poda ver una serie de
cabezas clavas, bultos escultricos que oficiaban al parecer de guardianes
mitolgicos del templo; actualmente solo una de ellas permanece en su sitio
original.