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Andes View
Photograph by Silvia Rodriguez Kembel

Tucked into the north-central Peruvian Andes, the ancient ceremonial site of Chavín de Huántar was likely a major center for Chavín culture during the first millennium B.C. The site and others in the surrounding highland valleys have kept modern archaeologists employed for decades.