TRUJILLO - LA LIBERTAD

Trujillo capital of La Libertad Region, is the third largest city in Perú. It lies on the north coast, 561 km/349 miles from Lima, where the Moche and Chimu civilizations developed between 200 B.C and A.D. 700. Both cultures were remarkable for their pottery and work in gold and silver. Land of a pleasant climate, beautiful dances, impressive archaeology vestige, republican and colonial mansions, sober architecture churches, delicious food, besides of kindly people and pretty women.

Peruvian north beautiful region, before Chimu culture was borne and the Mochica or Moche culture was partially developed. Mochicas are famous because of its perfect ceramic sculptures which maximun expression is given by their pots representing faces and the world wide known erotic pots.

It was a civilization constituted by priest and warriors who founded several states that alternately ruled the following valleys: Pacasmayo, Chicama, Viru, Santa, Lambayeque, Huarmey and Moche, from the III up to IX century of the christian era. Its religious archaeology is fascinating and mysterious, due there are many monuments for being studies.

Among the most remarkable archaeological places, we find the sun and monn monuments (Huacas del Sol y la Luna) two large pyramidal buildings made of unbaked earth and the Archaeological Complex El Brujo, no doubts one of the most interesting ceremonial vestiges of this culture en La Libertad´s region.

Chimu manorial place was founded in the XII century a.c. by a legendary king called Tacainamo, it achieved its maximum splendor in the middle of the XV century under Michancaman government, who was conquered by the incas and take prisoner to Cusco.

CHAN CHAN
The Archaeological complex of Chan Chan lies on the Moche valley, 5 km (3 miles) northwest of the city of Trujillo. The largest mud –brick citadel built by a pre-hispanic civilization in the Americas, Chan Chan which means Sun Sun was the religious and administrative capital of the Chimu kingdom until the conquest by the Incas. The citadel was built between the 12th and 15th centuries People say there were 100 thousand inhabitants in this village being the large city of the world made of unbaked mud.

As this culture´s metallurgical technique was so extraordinary, the incas took many Chimu craftsmen to Cusco for teaching there how to work metals.

They made gold and silver jewels also ceremonial objects, among them, the tumis, semicircular knives are remarkable ceremonial bowls, ear rings and masks, made of goldwith turquoises.

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