Casma River
Rio Casma | |
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Ancash Region | |
Physical characteristics | |
Mouth | Pacific Ocean |
• coordinates | 9°26′58″S 78°22′57″W / 9.449444°S 78.382375°W |
The Casma River, which upstream is called Río Grande, is a river that crosses northern
The valley contains the small, once important town of Casma, which had to be rebuilt after being destroyed by the 1970 Ancash earthquake. The new town has been completed.
Economy
The main economic activity is
.Archaeology
The Casma Valley, a coastal valley situated about 320 kilometres (200 mi) north of
Huaynuná
(Coordinates 9°21′00″S 78°25′19″W / 9.35°S 78.422°W)
The coastal pre-ceramic site of Huaynuná (Huaynuma), 13 km north of the Casma Valley, has also been investigated by archaeologists. An early, public religious tradition of architecture is represented there by a large elevated structure built on a hillside. This is a precursor to the much larger Initial Period religious mounds on the coast of Peru.
Evidence from Huaynuná, as well as the dates from other Casma Valley sites, indicate that larger-scale irrigation agriculture, use of pottery, and weaving did not appear in the Casma Valley area until about 1600 BC, some 200 years later than similar developments on the central coast of Peru.[1]
Also, at Huaynuma, potatoes dating to about 2000 BC have been found.[2][3] This is one of the earliest such discoveries in South America.
See also
Notes
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- ^ Ugent D., S. Pozorski and T. Pozorski. 1982. Archaeological potato tuber remains from the Casma Valley of Peru. Econ. Bot. 36:182–192
- ISBN 978-1-317-59829-9.
References
External links
- Early Monumental Architecture on the Peruvian Coast. From: jqjacobs.net. Retrieved on November 3, 2007.
- Sechin Culture, Peru latinamericanstudies.org
- ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE MOJEQUE (MOXEQUE) AND "PAMPA DE LLAMAS"