The Paracas culture is an important Andean society between approximately 800 BCE and 100 BCE, with an extensive knowledge of irrigation and water management.
It develops in the Paracas Peninsula, located in what today is the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in the Ica Region.
Most of our information about the lives of the Paracas people comes from excavations at the large seaside Paracas site, first investigated by the Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello in the 1920s.
