Chavín de Huántar
Chavín de Huántar is a town and archaeological site from the pre-Incan Chavin culture of around 900 BC containing ruins and other artefacts. The site in the Central Andes of Peru is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: archaeological site in Peru
- Also known as: “Chavín culture”, “Chavin de Huantar”, “Chavín de Huantar”, and “Cultura chavin”
Photo: Dtarazona, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chavin National Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chavín de Huántar.
Chavín de Huántar
- Categories: archaeological site and World Heritage Site
- Location: Chavín de Huantar District, Huari Province, Ancash, Central Sierra, Peru, South America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Chavín de Huántar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشافين دي هوانتار”
- Armenian: “Ուանտար Չավին”
- Armenian: “Չավին դե Ուանտար”
- Basque: “Chavin de Huantar”
- Basque: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Basque: “Chavín”
- Belarusian: “Чавін дэ Ўантар”
- Belarusian: “Чавін-дэ-Уантар”
- Burmese: “ချာဗင် ဒေ ဟွမ်းတား”
- Catalan: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Chinese: “夏文考古遗址”
- Chinese: “夏文考古遺址”
- Chinese: “查文德万卡尔”
- Chinese: “查文德万塔尔”
- Chinese: “查文德萬塔爾”
- Croatian: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Czech: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Dutch: “Archeologisch gebied van Chavín”
- Dutch: “Chavin de Huantar”
- Dutch: “Chavín de Huantar”
- Dutch: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Dutch: “Chavin-cultuur”
- Finnish: “Chavín de Huantar”
- Finnish: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Finnish: “Chavin”
- French: “Chavin de Huantar”
- French: “Chavín de Huantar”
- French: “Chavín de Huántar”
- French: “Chavin”
- French: “Huantar”
- French: “Site archéologique de Chavin”
- Georgian: “ჩავინ დე უანტარი”
- Georgian: “ჩავინ-დე-უანტარი”
- German: “Chavin de Huantar”
- German: “Chavín de Huantar”
- German: “Chavín de Huantár”
- German: “Chavín de Huántar”
- German: “Chavín-Kultur”
- German: “Chavin”
- German: “Chavinkultur”
- Hebrew: “צ’אווין דה ואנטאר”
- Hindi: “चाविन दे हुंतार”
- Hungarian: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Indonesian: “Cagar Alam Chavín de Huantar”
- Indonesian: “Chavín de Huantar”
- Italian: “Chavin de Huantar”
- Italian: “Chavín de Huantar”
- Italian: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Italian: “Chavin”
- Japanese: “チャビン・デ・ワンタル”
- Japanese: “チャビン（古代遺跡）”
- Kotava: “Chavín”
- Lithuanian: “Čavin de Uantaras”
- Lithuanian: “Čavinas”
- Lithuanian: “Chavín de Huantar”
- Lithuanian: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Macedonian: “Чавин де Уантар”
- Maltese: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Maltese: “Chavín”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chavín”
- Norwegian: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Persian: “چاوین هانتر”
- Polish: “Chavín de Huantar”
- Polish: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Polish: “Kultura Chavín”
- Portuguese: “Chavin de Huantar”
- Portuguese: “Chavin”
- Portuguese: “Sítio Arqueológico de Chavin”
- Quechua: “Chavin de Huantar”
- Quechua: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Quechua: “Chavin”
- Quechua: “Chavín”
- Quechua: “Chawin”
- Quechua: “Wantar Chawin”
- Quechua: “Wantar Chawpin”
- Russian: “Чавин-де-Уантар”
- Serbian: “Чавин де Хуантар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Slovak: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Spanish: “Centro ceremonial de Chavín de Huántar”
- Spanish: “Chavin de Huantar”
- Spanish: “Chavin de Huántar”
- Spanish: “Chavín de Huantar”
- Spanish: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Spanish: “Sitio arqueologico de Chavin”
- Spanish: “Sitio arqueologico de Chavín”
- Spanish: “Sitio arqueológico de Chavin”
- Spanish: “Sitio arqueológico de Chavín”
- Swedish: “Chavin de Huantar”
- Swedish: “Chavín de Huántar”
- Swedish: “Chavin”
- Tatar: “Чавин-де-Уантар”
- Turkish: “Chavín de Huantar”
- Ukrainian: “Чавин культура”
- Ukrainian: “Чавін-де-Уантар”
- Vietnamese: “Chavín de Huantar”
- Wu Chinese: “查文德万塔尔”
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