Chavin de Huantar

 Located in Chavin de Huantar, Ancash. Chavin was developed in the rivers "Huacheksa and Mosna", is consider World Heritage. The ancient inhabitants of the area were great craftsmen, farmers, and astronomers.

Temples:

Old Temple:

The oldest pyramid is called the Old Temple (850 BC) and housed inside the main oracle of the time: "God Smiling," represented in the sculpture called Monolithic Lanzon. At the Old Temple which together form 3 pyramids from the air and form a letter "U". Each of the parts that make up the Old Temple had a role in the ceremonies held there.

Old Temple

New Temple:

The Central New Temple Pyramid is cube-shaped and has stone walls. Foursquare Sunken Plaza, across from the main pyramid, keep an exact alignment with the cover of the New Temple.

New Temple

The "Lanzon Monolitico":

In the Old Temple, the most important is "Lanzón Gallery", where the idol called "Monolithic Lanzon," one of the main icons for Chavín. This stone is carved the image of God in the world below, also called the "Smiling God" responsible for the fertility of the land and the seasons.

Estela Raimondi:

The character represented in the Estela Raimondi is the same as the "Lanzón monolítico" an anthropomorphic divinity, standing, front view, with open arms, holding in each hand, a kind of staffs.

Obelisco Tello:

The "Obelisco Tello" is another major art sculptures representative of the culture it represents a metaphor for the universe as understood by the Chavin. It was discovered by Julio C.Tello

Cabezas Clavas:

They were used to scare the society, they surrounded the New Temple. They represent human heads but with attributes of different gods in that time.

Callejón de Conchucos - FLORA

Puya Raimondi:

It is located to the East of the Cordillera Blanca, they had many plants but the most important that belong to the fauna was the Puya Raimondi,it has 12 meters of high and a life cicle of 100 years, this is consider the awesome one because can born just one time and then its seeds expand. 

Quinual:
It is another kind of plant, it can grow untilthe 8 meters, to grown highest it requires a deep area much better if it is rect. this plant is usefull to surround deep crops.

Yareta:

It's a plant that grows in the mountains, places that there are notso much sand, it can grow about rocks and in a cold climate, this plant is usefull to delete the bad plants of the potatoes, the Yareta is sought by many farmers in order to keep their crops free or clean of any weeds.

Leyenda de Huandi y Huascar - La Unión de Lagunas

The story goes that the God Inti had a beautiful daughter, Princess Huandi, Inti the God his father had in mind to marry her with a God of beauty, but love of the princess belonged toanother person, a young mortal named Huascar. When Godheard this Inti not happy Huascar asked to leave but he refused, for the love of both was stronger every day, the father, Inti, unable to do anything, angry and decided he vowed never to cursegoing to be together so condemned to live forever with a penaltyaway which meant that they are each in each snow mountainface to face and thus never touching, moving the two loverstragedy mourn his misfortune joining dropwise their cries thusformed lagoon Llanganuco which means the union of their cries.So much so that these two glaciers are called by HuascarHuascaran and Huandoy by Princess Huandi.

Laguna de Llanganuco

Located in Ancash,Callejon de Huaylas, has a depth of 28 meters. Has a green color turquoise water. Its formed by the melting of glaciers of the Huascaran. The water temperature is about -3°C.

Flora: The natives plants are the Huarango,Molle, and the Varizo. The tuna is used as a medicinal plant. The "floripondio rosado" is used a drug. The coca leaf and the San Pedro are consider sacred leafs.

"Floripondio Rosado"








Fauna: The only animal that lives there is the trout.

"Brown trout"

Yungay

Located in the "Cordillera Blanca", surrounded by many snow monuntains, such as "Huascarán" ( the biggest snow mountain of Peru that measures 6678 meters over the sea level) and lakes, such as Llanganuco and Morococha.
This town was devastated by three earthquakes:

• 1725 Earthquake: there was a snow slide from the Huandoy mountain that fell into a lake causing a part of the town to sink.
• 1962 Earthquake: There was an anvalanche, rocks and snow fell from Huascarán to the town, covering part of it. Luckily Aira mountain protected the town.
• 1970 Earthquake: It was the strongest one, it had 7.8 points on the scale of Ritcher, it shook Yungay. Pieces of snow from the Huascarán fell into nearby lakes, causing most of the town to be erased from the map. Because of that, the Yungay cementery (Campo Santo) built a special section specially for the dead people during the earthquake.

Campo Santo, Yungay Cementery