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ID: 7033098
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7033098
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Acaray (deserted settlement)  Acaray (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 11 03 10 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -11.0538  decimal degrees
Long: 077 32 52 W  degrees minutes   Long: -77.5481  decimal degrees

Note: Site located on three hilltops in the Huaura River Valley on the north coast of Peru; each hilltop was apparently ringed with defensive walls; cemetery is also located here. Was used during two periods: the Early Horizon (ca. 900-200 BCE) and the Late Intermediate Period (ca. 1000-1470 CE).

Names:
Acaray (preferred,C,V,S)
Fortaleza de Huaura (H,V)  ............ name by which the site was known when first excavated

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Peru (nation)  ........  Peru (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lima, Región de (region (administrative division))  ............  Lima, Región de (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Acaray (deserted settlement)  ................  Acaray (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)
fortress (H)
Pre-Columbian (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Acaray..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Brown Vega, Prehispanic Warfare (2009)
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
Fortaleza de Huaura..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Brown Vega, Prehispanic Warfare (2009)
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)

 

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