Tumbes

Cabeza de Vaca (Head of the Cow) Archaeological Zone

Cabeza de Vaca is a complex built on a base of stone and adobe that also includes a high concentration of cultural material (ceramics, bones, stone tools and refuse piles) dispersed on adjacent hillsides. Archaeological investigations suggest a period of occupation that started from the Late Intermediate Chimú culture to the Late Horizon, the Inca Empire. This site had a transcendent notoriety in the pre-Hispanic era. Spanish historians knew it simply as the “Corrals.”

Location Access
Province: Tumbes
Distance:
Time:
5 kilometers from
the city of Tumbes		 10 minutes by car
District: Corrales
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N/A Monday to Sunday
8:30 – 17:00		 N/A

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