Huaca Montegrande

The city of Perugia, in Italy, is hosting the international conference “The Secret of Montegrande: The Discovery that Rewrote the History of Cacao.” On Thursday, March 12, starting at 10:30 a.m., at the LAB – Luisa Annibale Base in Perugia, La Città del Cioccolato  will promote an important meeting dedicated to new discoveries about the origins of cacao, with the support of the University of Perugia and IULM University of Milan. It is worth noting that La Città del Cioccolato is the largest...

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...