VISITOR ’S DE CENTRE OF CARAL 6.2

The Sacred City has a facility adapted to adequately receive visitors, provide tourist orientation and resting areas. The Reception Center has been built with panels made of organic materials (caña brava (giant reed), guayaquil cane, reed, totora, etc.) on stonewalls joined with mud mortar, following the old construction style typical of some Caral buildings. It has a box office for visitor registration, a parking lot for cars and buses, toilets with running water, dining rooms around a central space with capacity for 370 people, artisan modules, a shop selling souvenirs and publications about Caral and an Interpretation Center, which is a museographic facility showing the social history of the Caral Civilization, the oldest in America.

In 2015, the following improvements and additions were completed at the Reception Center:

- Implementation of the “Science Tunnel”: Caral, 5000 years producing scientific and technological knowledge.

- Modules built to provide a museum space for social responsibility programs of the Zona Arqueológica Caral.

6.2.1

Aimed at disseminating the values achieved in knowledge generation, 5000 years ago, a Science and Technology museographic exhibition was set up at the Reception Center of the Sacred City of Caral; Human Work in Harmony with Nature; and the integrated vision of Caral’s society and its relationship with the outer space.

With didactic infographics and recreational and interactive museographic resources, the visitor can learn about the significance and most important achievements of the Caral Civilization.