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The city of Caral rises in the Norte Chico

2600 BCE · Peru, South America · Culture

The city of Caral rises in the Norte Chico

Caral–Supe was a complex pre-Columbian era society that included as many as thirty major population centers in what is now the Caral region of north-central coastal Peru. The civilization flourished between the 4th and 2nd millennia BCE, with the formation of the first city generally dated to around 3500 BCE, at Huaricanga, in the Fortaleza area.

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