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Chankillo is submitted on

• Peru’s National Tentative List

as “Chankillo Astronomical Complex” (no. 5792).

It is stated that this was a great ceremonial complex devoted to a solar cult, by means of a ceremonial calendar structured through precise astronomical observation of the alignments between the thirteen towers and observing points.

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