Barranca

Barranca is a city in coastal Peru and the capital of Barranca Province in the Department of Lima. Historically it started out as a small settlement port made up of local fishermen supplying fish alongside the port of Callao, and it became the city it is today mostly through its growth during the Republican era in Peru, from the late 1890s to the 1930s. In March 2023 archaeologists from the Jagiellonian University and the National University of San Marcos announced the discovery of a Pre-Columbian temple made of dried bricks, with destroyed human burials, near Barranca. One of the skulls of the male individuals had been placed in a cloth three metres long that was ornamented with zoomorphic representations.