The Batán Grande or Sicán Archaeological Complex, just north of

Chiclayo Chiclayo (; qu, Chiklayu) is the principal city of the Lambayeque region in northern Peru. It is located inland from the Pacific coast and from the nation's capital, Lima. Founded by Spanish explorers as "Santa María de los Valles de Chicl ...

Lambayeque Province The Lambayeque Province is the largest of three provinces in Peru's Lambayeque Region. Boundaries *North, Northwest and West: Piura Region *Southeast Ferreñafe Province and Chiclayo Province *Southwest Pacific Ocean Political Division The ...

, Peru, is an ancient

archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology a ...

that was occupied by the Sican culture. The site has 50 identified

pyramid A pyramid (from el, πυραμίς ') is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single step at the top, making the shape roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilat ...

s. The archaeological site is located in the Historic Forest Sanctuary of Pómac. It was probably built between the 8th and 12th centuries A.D.

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