The oldest city of America was located in the north of Peru, in Caral, according to the scientific tests, between 2,627 and 2,100 b. C. It covers an area of 66 hectares, is located at the beginning of the middle sector of the Supe Valley, in the province of Barranca, at Kilometre 184 of the northern Pan-American Highway.

Unlike Mesopotamia, Egypt and India – which exchanged goods, knowledge and experiences – the Caral civilization, one of the most ancient on the planet, achieved extraordinary early development in complete isolation from its contemporaries in America and the Old World.

Caral features public buildings with their characteristic sunken circular plaza, as well as a complex of domestic units. Caral boasts an elaborate architectural design and a significant investment of organized labour and planned construction

At Caral a number of objects from the jungle have been found, giving an idea of the intense trading which occurred.

The pristine state of Supe managed to mobilise a huge labour force and, through complex networking, was able to attract to its advantage the surplus produced over a wide area, from the coast to the Callejon de Huaylas, Conchucos, Huallaga and Marañon.

Today we are able to admire the social order, the architectural work, the geoglyps and lines which predate by more than 3,000 years those at Nazca, the decorative murals, musical instruments, elaborate textiles and personal adomments, the genetic variety of their products and their own images recreated in more than a hundred unfired clay statuettes.