Trujillo is a city in northwestern Peru.
It is located on the lower Moche River, near its mouth on the Pacific
Ocean. Trujillo is the capital of the La Libertad Region , and is the
third-largest city in the country, behind Lima and Arequipa.
Tourism is also a major industry in Trujillo due to the city's closeness
to important sites where the Moche and Chimu civilizations evolved.
Trujillo aspires to be considered a World Heritage Site, because of the
proximity of both those cultures and its historical colonial city centre
whose old houses attract many visitors. Nearby ruins include the Chimu
mud city of Chan Chan, and the Moche ruins of Huaca del Sol, Huaca de la
Luna, and El Brujo. The world-famous beach Huanchaco, a surfing
destination, is located just north of Trujillo. In addition, the
revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar lived in a house on the Plaza de
Armas.
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The North of
Peru is rich and full of interesting places such as
Trujillo, Chiclayo and the lost world of the Chachapoyas.
The Pre-Columbian Chachapoyas culture, conquered in the
15th century by the Incas, has left a landscape
scattered with villages and burial sites which until
recently had been largely overlooked by archaeologists.
Situated in the cloud forests around the town of
Chachapoyas in Peru�s northern Amazonas Department,
these sites are dominated by the mighty fortress of
Kuelap, perched majestically atop mountain-top cliffs
overlooking the verdant Andean landscape. In Chachapoyas,
remnants of the past invite discovery by the bold
adventurer, and the cultures of the present extend a
friendly welcome.
In Chiclayo you will visit the tomb of the Lord of Sipan
(the richest tomb discovered in the Americas), the
Valley of the 26 pyramids of Tucume and Bruning Museum
where there is an interesting collection of gold
artifacts and ceramics
The pyramids of the Sun and Moon, just south of
Trujillo, are the largest structures ever put up in
South America, and are second in the Western Hemisphere
only to the Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico, in size. They
formed the spiritual center of the Moche Empire, a
highly sophisticated yet mysterious culture that pre-dated
the Incas by nearly 1000 years. It is quite certain that
the Moche Indians had contact with other civilizations
in the ancient Americas, and there is good reason to
believe they may have been influenced by Asian ocean-
going voyagers as well. The Pyramid of the Moon contains
a central, vaulted chamber, and the mountain directly
behind, Cerro Blanco, appears to have been shaped by
humans into a pyramid form as well. Despite their
achievements in architecture, metal-working, and
ceramics (one can still find countless pottery shards in
the sands surrounding the site), the Moche were very
militaristic, and scenes from their pottery depict
ritual bloodletting and torture. They may have evolved a
system of �black� magic that aided them in their
conquests of neighboring peoples, or they may have taken
spiritual teachings from Asia and twisted their meanings
into bizarre new practices over the centuries. Huanchaco
is a fishing town where �caballitos de totora� are still
used by the local inhabitants, who venture into the cold
currents of the Pacific in these precarious-looking reed
boats. This massive adobe city, really a series of royal
compounds built by the Chimu, was a major source of gold
for both the Incas, and later, for the Spanish. Though
well-looted over the centuries, gold artifacts still
occasionally appear in the drifting sands. Contacts
between Chan Chan and the Asian continent have never
been proven, but there are tantalizing hints. Pottery
figures depict Asiatic men with beards and turbans; even
the name �Chan Chan� seems to be Chinese in origin.
Don�t miss the famous �honeycombs,� where strange
acoustic effects allow visitors to whisper to each other
over long distances inside the adobe structures. Also
visit The small city of Huar�z, the hub for all hiking
activity and Chavin de Huantar, the most representative
Ceremonial center of the high Peruvian Culture with 3000
years older, Chavin is considered to be the first high
Peruvian Culture.
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Trujillo is a city in northwestern Peru.
It is located on the lower Moche River, near its mouth on the Pacific
Ocean. Trujillo is the capital of the La Libertad Region , and is the
third-largest city in the country, behind 
