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Attractive Touristic:

¨Max Uhle¨ Regional Museum:

The Showroom displays sequentially and orderly part of the archaeological material found during excavations of Sechin, supported models, scale models, drawings, aerial photos, photo murals, burials of the Chavin, Wari, Chimu , bricks of different shapes and old, as well as a timeline Cultural

Sechin Alto Archaeological Complex:

Sechin Alto was the political center the culture Sechin, who shared it with the archaeological Mojeque, located in the valley of casma.

Is the most important archaeological complex of pre-hispanic America for its monumental architecture and planning mammoth, which belongs to the early formative period and with atlleast 1600 years.

Sechin Bajo Archaeological Complex:

It is a circular temple with a square low level of beautiful architecture, which would be the most important part of the complex due to its archaeological and architectural value.



Pampa Colorada:

It is located at approximately 15 km from the town of

Casma, along the left margin of the Yautan road.  The discovery of large lines, similar to those of the Nazca plain, carved into the arid soil was a significant find.  There are numerous geoglyphs in the shape of animal, human, and mythical creatures.

Chankillo:

It is a stone fortress consists of three ovoid walls. It is also a natural viewpoint, is built on top of a hill. From there you can see by the side of the desert and the other Casma Valley and also part of the valley of Sechin.

The fort is a building of three concentric walls and ovoid. In front of her in the middle of the pampa on a hillock are "the thirteen towers," a set of cubic constructions aligned. It is likely that these structures contained in some ritual, perhaps related to the lunar calendar.

Gramita beach:

At 26 km. from the city of Casma (35 min. by car)

This beach is located as part of the foothills that reach the sea from the hill Tortuga. The coast presents a curve and the beach is sandy.

Some walls of the rocks are shown in straight generating U-shaped passages which can also be accessed by sea.

Tortugas Beach:

At 20 km. Casma (30 min drive)

Its waters are clear and calm, ideal for marine activities, as well as swimming, fishing, diving, yachting and practice spear fishing. This beach is ideal for water sports.

In the summer months it is visited by people coming from different places especially Casma, Chimbote, Huaraz and Lima. For the inbound tourism, Tortugas has good restaurants and hotels that cater to the public permanently.