Wiraquchapampa

Wiraquchapampa

Wall of the buildings in Wiraquchapampa
Location	Peru
Region	La Libertad Region
Height	3,070 metres (10,072 ft)

Wiraquchapampa (Quechua) is an archaeological site with the remains of a building complex of ancient Peru of pre-Inca times. It was one of the administrative centers of the Wari culture. Wiraquchapampa lies about 3.5 km north of Huamachuco in Sánchez Carrión Province of the La Libertad Region at an elevation of 3,070 metres (10,072 ft).

The site was occupied from the late Middle Horizon 1B time to the first decades of period 2A, according to the chronology established by Dorothy Menzel, taking as reference the classic division of Horizons and Intermediate by John Rowe. These correspond to the 7th and 8th centuries of our era.

Its Quechua name comes from wira (fat), qucha (lake), and pampa (plain). The term is also related to wiraqucha or Wiraqucha (mister, sir, gentleman / god), referring to one of the greatest Andean divinities (Wiraqucha), also the name of the eighth emperor (Sapa Inka) of the Tawantinsuyu (Wiraqucha Inka). Hispanicized spellings include Huiracochapampa, Viracochabamba, Viracochapampa, and Wiracochapampa.