June 17 (UPI) -- Peru's Ministry of Culture denounced the total destruction of the Triple Spiral pre-Hispanic geoglyph, a figure more than 1,000 years old linked to water worship, located within a protected archaeological zone in the north of the country.
The agency said specialists and National Police officers confirmed the intentional removal of the geoglyph through manual alteration of the terrain in the Quebrada Santo Domingo Archaeological Zone, in the district of Laredo, La Libertad region, about 350 miles north of Lima.
1,000 AÑOS DE HISTORIA BORRADOS EN UN INSTANTE
El geoglifo prehispánico conocido como "Triple Espiral", un patrimonio cultural con más de 1,000 años de antigüedad, fue destruido de manera intencional en la región de La Libertad, Perú.
La figura, grabada sobre el suelo y con una... pic.twitter.com/pVyQnfhgRW— Vigia Ciudadano (@VigiaCiudadano7) June 17, 2026
