Trips to Peru

The city is composed by citadels that have a single entrance that gives access to a runner who abre to other ways with walls and buildings of beautiful rectangular architecture: inner patios, administrative residences, buildings, temples, platforms and deposits. The walls were decorated with frisos modeled in high relief with geometric and zoomorfos reasons.

The burial platform of the sovereign, constructed in the form of T, was the most important building. The citadel was surrounded by outlying areas, where the producers and the servants lived on the kingdom. The names that receive the citadels nowadays correspond to the archeologists have studied who them (Rivero, Tschudi, Bandelier, Uhle, Tello); thus, the citadel “Rivero”, corresponds to soothes of Minchancamán, last Chimú governor, captured and taken to Cuzco by the Incas according to chronicles.

The city was the urban nucleus of a great regional state that included half of the Peruvian coast. From You fall down in the north to Lima, all the ways left from her.

HUACAS

• Huaca Dragón or Arcoiris: Located in the district of the Hope, 5 km to the northwest of Trujillo (15 minutes approx).
The frisos of their walls are decorated in relief with anthropomorphous polychrome figures and streamlined representations of the rainbow. This chimú ceremonial center, is one of huacas pyramidal older of the valley. It is considered that the place has an antiquity of 1,100 years. It includes/understands an area of 3,245 meters. It is a construction of adobe and mud, of almost quadrangular form, whose walls present/display motley form. Its structure presents/displays a succession of superposed platforms, oriented of this the west

It is presumed that originally it had to present/display three floors. One of its functions went to carry out religious celebrations in honor to the Rainbow or other natural phenomena related to the rain and the fertility of grounds. In the decorative thing, they emphasize in its walls figures in high mud relief with zoomorfas and anthropomorphous representations. Huaca has been denominated the Dragoon by the importance and notoriety of a figure of high relief in one of the main walls, bicephalous, seemed to a dragoon, with without number of legs, to the way of a centipede.

• Huaca the Emerald
Located to 3 km of the city of Trujillo (8 km approx).
This archaeological site was constructed during the first times of development of the Chimú culture, in narrow bond with the capital Chan Chan. It presents/displays a rectangular form, with of 65 meters in length and 41 meters in width. Constructed on the basis of adobe, it owns two platforms to which it is promoted through two central inclines. Their walls present/display mud decorations in high relief, with zoomorfos and geometric reasons that they are repeated successively.


• Huacas of the Sun and the Moon
These two Huacas are 700 years old more than Chan Chan and they are attributed to the Moche period. They are to about 10 km to the Southeast of Trujillo.

The Huaca of the Sun is greater the pre-Columbian individual structure of Peru, although it has been destroyed more of a third. Esteem that had to measure a length of 342m, 159m of width and 45m of height.

The Huaca of the Moon, entering itself 500m in the desert, is smaller although more interesting. The structure is filled with rooms covered with ceramics, precious and frisos metals policromados, characteristic of the culture moche. Apparently they served, essentially, like place of ceremonies.