Huaca

thumb|300px|Coricancha museum marker graphically explaining the Inca Wakas and Seqes system thumb|300px|Coricancha museum marker describing the Inca Wakas and Seqes system In the Quechuan languages of South America, a huaca or '''wak'a' is an object that represents something revered, typically a monument of some kind. The term huaca can refer to natural locations, such as immense rocks. Some huacas have been associated with veneration and ritual. The Quechua people traditionally believed every object has a physical presence and two camaquen (spirits), one to create it and another to animate it. They would invoke its spirits for the object to function.

==Huacas in Peru== Huacas are commonly located in nearly all regions of Peru outside the deepest parts of the Amazon basin in correlation with the regions populated by the pre-Inka and Inka early civilizations. They can be found in downtown Lima today in almost every district, the city having been built around them. Huacas within the municipal district of Lima are typically fenced off to avoid graffiti.