“What is now the city of Lima never had a great population, but was inhabited by the indians who looked after the temples, which we now understand to have been very impressive, each with their own buildings, and the greatest shrine and court was that at Pachacamac,” writes Antonio de Calancha, in his Chronicles of the Augustinians in Peru, remembering his travels of many years earlier.
“Along the coast past Pachacamac, travelling towards Pisco and Ica, we reach a place where there is still today the living memory and signs of St Thomas in Calango. Some authors had written of footprints and letters on a stone, but only a little, and not everything. So I took great care, to seek out the opinions of older people of reputation.”