Fascinating Artificial Caves Of Ventanillas de Otuzco And Its Secret Passageways – Pre-Inca Necropolis Of The Cajamarca Culture

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many ancient places in Peru are as beautiful as valuable to history. Not far from the city of Cajamarca there is a fascinating archaeological site known as Ventanillas de Otuzco that is situated on a volcanic rock. What makes Ventanillas de Otuzco unique are its artificial caves that have long interested scholars.

Ventanillas de Otuzco. An ancient pre-Columbian Peruvian archaeological burial site called the Otuzco windows or windows of Otuzco is situated near Cajamarca. Credit: Adobe Stock – Justin

Located at 2,650 meters above sea level, the artificial caves of Ventanillas de Otuzco are said to have been used around (200 A.D -800 A. D) by the Cajamarca Culture to bury their dead. This pre-Inca necropolis has a unique architecture with hundreds of windows for each deceased individual. Each of these caves has an entrance that is either rectangular or quadrangular, a height of 50 to 60 centimeters.

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