Sechin
Cerro Sechín is an archaeological site in the Casma Province of the Ancash Region in northern Peru. Dating to 1600 BC, the site was discovered by Peruvian archaeologists Julio C.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hill with an elevation of 265 metres
- Description: cultural heritage site in Peru
- Also known as: “Cerro Sechin” and “Cerro Sechín”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museo Regional de Casma ‘Max Uhle’ and Sechin Bajo.
Museo Regional de Casma ‘Max Uhle’
Museum
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Museo Regional de Casma ‘Max Uhle’ is a museum.
Sechin Bajo
Archaeological site
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Sechin Bajo is a large archaeological site with ruins dating from 3500 BCE to 1300 BCE, making it not only one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Western Hemisphere, but also one of the oldest civilization centers on earth, although Göbekli Tepe is nearly twice as old.
Sechin Alto
Archaeological site
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Sechin Alto is a massive architectural complex in Peru belonging to the Early Formative period. It is located in the Casma Province, the Ancash Region, on the left bank of the Sechín River, east of the town of the same name.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Casma.
Casma
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Casma is a city in the coastal desert of Peru, located 330 kilometers northwest of Lima. It is the capital of the province of Casma and the third most populous city in the Ancash Region with an estimated population of 29,343.
Sechin
- Categories: archaeological site and landform
- Location: Casma District, Casma Province, Ancash, Northern Coast, Peru, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Tahitian—“Sechin” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Cerro Sechín”
- Cebuano: “Cerro Sechín”
- Chinese: “謝欽”
- Corsican: “Cerro Sechín”
- Danish: “Cerro Sechín”
- Dutch: “Cerro Sechín”
- Finnish: “Cerro Sechin”
- Finnish: “Cerro Sechín”
- French: “Cerro Sechín”
- German: “Cerro Sechín”
- Indonesian: “Cerro Sechín”
- Italian: “Cerro Sechin”
- Italian: “Cerro Sechín”
- Japanese: “セロ・セチン”
- Lithuanian: “Sečinas”
- Lithuanian: “Sero Sečinas”
- Low German: “Cerro Sechín”
- Portuguese: “Cerro Sechín”
- Quechua: “Sechín”
- Romanian: “Cerro Sechín”
- Russian: “Сечин”
- Spanish: “Cerro Sechin”
- Spanish: “Cerro Sechín”
- Spanish: “Sechin”
- Spanish: “Sechín”
- Swedish: “Cerro Sechín”
- Tahitian: “Cerro Sechín”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Sechin”. Photo: Sylvain2803, CC BY-SA 3.0.