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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Peru notes and coins for Tribute heritage

Peru Banknotes and coins -Tribute for national heritage/01

The Central Reserve Bank of Peru issues banknotes and coins with images showing details of national heritage, whether anthropological places or urban works of the past and remain in use through conservation, among others. In its own right, the archaeological heritage which amazes Peruvians and tourists, have preferential treatment.

We present this time three coins devoted to ceramics Vicus (Piura region), the sacred city of Caral (Lima region) and the archaeological site of Huarautambo (Pasco region)

Vicus ceramics. Vicus is a pre-Inca culture of ancient Peru that developed between the years 100 a. C. and 400 d. C. in the coastal northern Peru, in the lower reaches of the Piura River, 7 km Chulucanas district in the province of Morropon, Piura department.

The administrative headquarters, located in the "hill Vicus", at an altitude of 170 meters, which gives its name to this culture, liaised with other Andean cities located further north. The Vicus worked with silver alloys, gold and copper, these metals also used in the development of their farming implements. The reverse of the coin the composition of two pottery Vicus is observed.

Huarautambo archaeological site. The Central Reserve Bank of Peru put into circulation since November 4, 2015 the new currency of S / 1.00 allusive Huarautambo the archaeological site, located in Cerro de Pasco, presumably built around 1470 AD. Huarautambo is a belonging to the Inca culture archaeological site. The resort features bridge, palace and pool built with stone. It was declared Cultural Heritage of the Nation on 25 March 2003.

The archaeological site of Astobamba - Huarautambo in Yanahuanca is located at 3,600 meters above sea level, it went through three periods: Pre Inca (ranked Astobamba place of punishment); Inca (Huarautambo, or accommodation dawn); and Colonial times (on both banks of the river Huarautambo). The tour of the place, you can see the Inca bath with three conductors of water, Tambo Inca architecture

Huarautambo Inkawasi building, Huarautambo, Yanahuanca, Pasco. De Grdg32 - CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36465550

Paqcha or pool Inca, Huarautambo, Yanahuanca, Pasco.

Warmiwasi building, Huarautambo, Yanahuanca, Pasco.

Caral. Although the details of his past might never become known, it is considered that its primary function was to serve as an administrative center for the production of cultivated terraced farm or platforms built on the Andean slopes steep food and at the same time, as the venue for rituals aimed to please the gods that provided sustenance, God Goddess of Water and Earth or Pachamama.