Santuario Arqueológico de Pachacamac

This guide to the Santuario Arqueológico de Pachacamac outside Lima follows an oracle god worshipped on this hillside for over a thousand years before the Inca arrived, renamed him, and let his cult run beside their own Temple of the Sun. You'll hear how, in January 1533, word of the sanctuary's riches drew Hernando Pizarro down from Cajamarca expecting an easy haul, and how the temple's priests responded before he reached it. Listen for the walk between the outer courts and the Painted Temple, where the story keeps circling back.