Paramonga
Paramonga was an important city constructed in the border of the Kingdom of Chimor , whose capital was the metropolis of Chan Chan. It is located on the Fortaleza river, close to the town of Pativilca to the north of Lima. Of her one says that it was an important portable altar, as Pachacamac. It must to his name when being in the environs of the modern property and town of Paramonga, not knowing itself his original name in language muchik, that was the spoken one in all the Peruvian North coast, before the Spanish conquest (1532). Habitually call "Strength", Paramonga must that name to one of its main buildings and better conserved, a staggered pyramid of 4 levels and of enormous proportions constructed in it marinates on a hill, that to the present eyes is looked like a European medieval castle.
The news and descriptions written older on this site we have them by hand of the Cronistas, Spanish soldiers and lawyers who accompanied to Pizarro in their predatory war by the Tawantinsuyu. Miguel de Estete, the "cronista soldier", in the trip that makes accompanying to Hernando Pizarro by the Able Nan (Dirt road) of the coast in search of gold to receive the rescue of the Atahualpa Inca in 1532, writes in his story: "(...) and another day went to sleep a great town that says Parmunga, that it is next to the sea, has a Strong House, with five blind fences, painted of many workings on the inside and by outside, with its covers very well fallows ground, to the way of Spain, with two tigers (pumas) to the fore door (...)". Another cronista, Cieza of Leon, in its trip of the Kings (Lima) to Trujillo in 1541, happens close to Paramonga to that describes it like of "(...) mulberry and aposentos (which) they were very gallants and have by the painted walls many ferocious animals and birds; surrounded everything of strong walls and built well. She is already almost everything ruined (...)".
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