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Pacatnamu

Pacasmayo Province, Peru

The Pacatnamu (Mochica : Pakatnamú, Pacatnamú) site is located at the mouth of the Jequetepeque Valley on the northern coast of Peru. Rocky cliffs protect two of its sides and a humanmade wall protects the third. This area of Peru does not have a tropical environment; it gets very little precipitation and has a mild climate, which sometime can become very humid.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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