Skip to content
Apollo⠀ · CC BY 2.0
Landmark Americas religious

Pachacamac

200 CE – 1533 CE · 1,333 years

Pre-Inca oracle and pilgrimage city on the Peruvian coast dedicated to the creator god Pachacamac, venerated across the central Andes for over a millennium.

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Pachacamac on Wikipedia.

Read the article

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–100 CE)
  2. Moche (200 CE–500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (600 CE–700 CE)
  4. Huari Empire (800 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Chimú Empire (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Wari (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Inca Empire (1500 CE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Vice-Royalty of Peru (1600 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Peru (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Landmark · Americas

Chichen Itza

600 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Maya chiefdoms and states

2000 BCE – 1521 CE

Trade route · Americas

Mesoamerican Trade Network

1200 BCE – 1521 CE

Conflict · Americas

Tongan Maritime Power and Rivalries

1200 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Americas

Machu Picchu

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Americas

Vice-Royalty of New Spain

Attested 1530 CE – 1815 CE

Trade route · Americas

Polynesian Eastward Voyaging

700 CE – 1300 CE

Conflict · Americas

Maya City-State Wars

400 BCE – 900 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 200 CE and 1533 CE.

226 CE Palenque 500 CE Uxmal 500 CE Kuelap 600 CE Chichen Itza 600 CE Mesa Verde 600 CE Cahokia Mounds

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Incense Route Trade route · Middle East 1000 BCE – 200 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Nagarjuna Figure · South India 150 CE – 250 CE Statue of Zeus at Olympia Landmark · Europe 435 BCE – 426 CE
Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons