An ancient burial ground 30 km south of Nazca on the Panamericana, where Nazca-culture mummies are displayed in their original tombs. The site was used for burials from around 200 to 900 AD. The mummies have been preserved by the extreme desert conditions — hair, skin, textiles, and even offerings remain intact after more than a thousand years.
Visitors walk a marked path past a series of open tombs where the mummies sit in their original positions, wrapped in funerary cloth. It is an affecting place — the figures are very clearly human, not dusty abstractions. Most tour agencies in Nazca include Chauchilla on half-day trips; it can also be reached by taxi.