Archaeologists found evidence of enormous rain damage at a Moche site. New building work had been interrupted and torn apart by torrential rain, and artifacts found in the damaged area dated to almost exactly that period.
The torrential rain has badly damaged the country's infrastructure, and thousands of people have been left homeless by flooding and mudslides in Venezuela.
The 2010 season of torrential rains has triggered deadly landslides --here a three-story building in northern Guatemala City fell into a massive sinkhole 330 feet deep.