Huaca Montegrande

Huaca Montegrande is featured in this publication, which challenges the idea of a pristine Amazon and presents it as a landscape historically inhabited, planned, and transformed by sophisticated civilizations over millennia. The academic publication  Paleoamazonia: Archaeology and History of Biocultural Heritage, Volume 1 – Material Heritage: Biosphere and Archaeology  offers a profound reexamination of Amazonian history, questioning the long-standing myth of the Amazon as a virgin and...

We’d like to share with you that the first stage of the field research work, which included the documentation and removal of stones from the inner rings, following the strictest archaeological standards, with the aim of excavating the center of the spiral of Huaca Montegrande, has been successfully completed. Excavations will resume in May 2026, once the rainy season has ended. For this reason, visits to Huaca Montegrande may take place from December 15, 2025 to April 30, 2026. Please note...

On October, 30 2025, the Città del Cioccolato -City of Chocolate- was inaugurated in Perugia, Italy, becoming the largest museum in the world devoted to chocolate and cacao. This museum offers not only insights into this Amazonian-origin fruit but also unforgettable immersive experiences for the hundreds of visitors it welcomes. The project, with an investment of six million euros, restored and transformed the historic former Coperto Market of Perugia, a 2,800 m² building, into a museum...