As our bus moved across the Central Lima in the morning of 19 December 2019, we passed next to a massive man-made hump created using mud bricks. We were told that this fully fenced up hump is Huaca Pucllana, ruins of a pre-Inca pyramid.
As someone who is interested in the ingenuity of people of bygone era in construction, I did some research soon afterword. This ruins left in the middle of Miraflores is pea-shaped and is aligned in a NE-SW direction. It measures approx. 500 m long by 100 m-150 m wide. One end has been cut to make way for a road in the city.
This 1,500 years old pyramid is made of seven staggered platforms and is reckoned to be a shrine dedicated to a protector deity.
This structure is best appreciated from a drone view which someone has been kind enough to have uploaded on 18 December 2014 and further explained here.
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