Huaricanga is the earliest city of the Norte Chico civilization.

Norte Chico civilization.

Caral - An important center of the Norte Chico civilization, in present day Peru.

The Norte Chico civilization were the earliest known users of textiles in the Andes.

Caral civilization or Caral-Supe civilization are alternative names for the ancient Peruvian Norte Chico civilization.

Caral civilization is frequently used in Spanish language sources, while Norte Chico civilization is frequently deployed in English.

The more recent findings concerning the Norte Chico civilization are not included on this list, as it was compiled before the site at Caral was investigated in detail.

On the north-central coast of present-day Peru, the Norte Chico civilization emerged around the time of Caral-Supe civilization.

Caral is the most ancient city of the Americas, and is a well-studied site of the Caral civilization or Norte Chico civilization.

The oldest known complex society in Peru, the Norte Chico civilization, flourished along the coast of the Pacific Ocean between 3,000 and 1,800 BCE.

The Norte Chico civilization included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru.

Because of the extremely dry conditions of the desert sands, twined textiles from the Norte Chico civilization in Peru have survived, dating back to 2500-1800 BCE.

Peruvian territory was home to the Norte Chico civilization, one of the oldest in the world, and to the Inca Empire, the largest state in Pre-Columbian America.

Aspero is a well-studied Late Preceramic site of the ancient Norte Chico civilization, located at the mouth of the Supe river on the north-central Peruvian coast.

Part of the region is the home of the Caral-Supe civilization or Norte Chico civilization, the first known complex culture in the Americas, which lasted from about 3000BC to 1800BC.

Circa 1800 BC, the Norte Chico civilization began to decline, with more powerful centers appearing to the south and north along the coast, and to the east inside the belt of the Andes.

The mummies continued to be made until about 1800 BC, making them contemporary with Las Vegas culture and Valdivia culture in Ecuador and the Norte Chico civilization in Peru.

In the Andes, the first urban centers developed in the Norte Chico civilization (also Caral or Caral-Supe civilization), Chavin and Moche cultures, followed by major cities in the Huari, Chimu and Inca cultures.

The oldest known civilization in South America, as well as in the Western Hemisphere as a whole, the Norte Chico civilization - c.3200 BC - 1800 BC - comprised several interconnected settlements on the Peruvian coast, including the urban centers at Aspero and Caral.