In the context of Peru, the Incas are often called.
Almost never is heard here in Europe something of a much earlier Peruvian culture: the Moche.
Ever since Fitzcarraldo in Iquitos wanted to build an opera house – so the same movie Fitzcarraldo – the city is known as the “Capital of the green hell”.
Today, the “hell” but very thinned out around Iquitos.