Pañamarca

Panamarca is the southernmost monumental Moche site in Peru, constructed atop a granite hill in the lower Nepena Valley [1] [2]. The site features an imposing stepped adobe platform and is renowned for its vivid polychrome murals depicting priests, warriors, and supernatural beings [1] [2]. In 2024, researchers discovered a seventh-century throne room of a female ruler with painted adobe throne, the first such find in Moche archaeology [2] [3] [4].