Lambayeque
Chiclayo Province
Saña District

Huaca Rajada

Huaca Rajada, also known as Sipán, is a Moche archaeological site in northern in the Lambayeque Valley, that is famous for the tomb of Lord of Sipán, excavated by Walter Alva and his wife Susana Meneses beginning in 1987.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: archaeological site in northern Peru
  • Also known as: “Huaca Rajada-Sipán”, “Sipan”, “Sipán”, and “Sipan Hacienda”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museo de Sitio Huaca Rajada-Sipán.

Museum
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum.

Huaca Rajada

Latitude
-6.81022° or 6° 48′ 37″ south
Longitude
-79.60328° or 79° 36′ 12″ west
Elevation
91 metres (299 feet)
Open location code
675259QW+WM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2464956439
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3691786
Wiki­data ID
Q2716571
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Huaca Rajada” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “西潘”
  • Dutch: “Sipan”
  • Dutch: “Sipán”
  • French: “Huaca Rajada”
  • French: “Sipán”
  • Georgian: “სიპანი”
  • German: “Sipán”
  • Hebrew: “ואקה רחאדה”
  • Italian: “Sipán”
  • Japanese: “シパン”
  • Macedonian: “Сипан”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sipán”
  • Polish: “Sipan”
  • Polish: “Sipán”
  • Quechua: “Sipán”
  • Slovenian: “Sipán”
  • Spanish: “Huaca Rajada-Sipán”
  • Spanish: “Huaca Rajada”
  • Spanish: “Sipan”
  • Spanish: “Sipán”
  • Swedish: “Sipán”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіпан”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Huaca Rajada”. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.