Oyotún_District
Oyotún District
District in Lambayeque, Peru
Oyotún District is one of twenty districts of the province Chiclayo in Peru.[1]
Oyotún | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Peru |
| Region | Lambayeque |
| Province | Chiclayo |
| Founded | November 23, 1925 |
| Capital | Oyotún |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Segundo Manuel Aguinaga Perez |
| Area | |
| • Total | 455.4 km2 (175.8 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 209 m (686 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 10,302 |
| • Density | 23/km2 (59/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (PET) |
| UBIGEO | 140110 |
In November 2019, Peruvian archaeologists led by Walter Alva discovered a 3,000-year-old, 130 feet long megalithic 'water cult' temple with 21 tombs in the Zana Valley. Archaeologists assumed that the temple was abandoned around 250 BC and later used as a burial ground by the Chumy people. Twenty of the tombs belonged to the people of Chumy, and one to an adult male buried during the Formative period with a ceramic bottle with two spouts and a bridge handle. According to the excavations, as many as three construction phases took place in the temple: the first was between 1500 BC-800 BC, when people built the foundations of the building from cone-shaped clay; second, between 800 BC-400 BC, when the megalithic temple was built under the influence of the pre-Inca civilization known as the Chavin; and finally 400 BC-100 BC, when people added circular pillars used to hold the roof of the temple.[2]
- (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
- November 2019, Yasemin Saplakoglu-Staff Writer 20. "Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Megalithic Temple Used by a 'Water Cult'". livescience.com. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
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