The twenty-five adobe pyramids of Túcume among the carob trees

It was Calac, a descendant of the mythical Naylamp, who, arriving from the ocean, founded the pre-Inca civilisation around the 8th century A.D., who created the so-called Valley of the Pyramids at Túcume, an extraordinary complex composed of 26 conical constructions made with the adobe technique using mud bricks in a forest of carob trees, among which the Huaca del Pueblo, Cerro La Raya and Huaca las Balsas stand out. The local people take care of the preservation of the site, set up banquets where they enjoy traditional cuisine and often stage shamanic rituals to share the medicinal practices inherited from their ancestors. The entire landscape is extraordinary, since the pyramids are located in the Pómac Forest, an authentic natural sanctuary inhabited by the Sipán civilisation in the province of Ferreñafe, in Lambayeque, with an area of almost six thousand hectares in which nature tours can be undertaken, especially to learn about plants and birds.