Huaca Huallamarca

Huaca Huallamarca (possibly from Quechua wak'a, Spanishified as "huaca" and meaning "sacred" or "local god of protection"; Walla, the name of the Huallas tribe; and marka, "village", "town" or "region") , also formerly known as Huaca Pan de Azúcar (from Spanish pan de azúcar, "sugar loaf"), is an archaeological site located in the district of San Isidro, in the city of Lima, the capital of Peru.

It has the form of a truncated stepped pyramid, consisting of three levels with an approximate height of 19 metres. Today, it is one of the few huacas preserved in that area.

It is a construction made in the pre-Columbian era dating from around 200 BC. It was one of the main settlements of the Pinazo cultural tradition of the central Peruvian coast, conceived in its early phase as a temple with ceremonial and administrative purposes for the congregation of a minority group of the population until AD 300, when its occupation shifted to use as a cemetery, with burials corresponding to the cultures Lima, Huaura (Tricolor-Geometric), Sicán, Chincha, and Ychsma.

In the 1950s, it was reconstructed by the Peruvian ethnologist Arturo Jiménez Borja, and on 8 August 1960 the Huallamarca Site Museum was inaugurated, the first site museum in Peru. Its address is Nicolás de Ribera Street 201, at the corner with El Rosario Avenue, in the district of San Isidro.