Trujillo

Trujillo is a city of 780 thousand¹ along the northwest coast of Perú, in La Libertad Región, at the mouth of the Moche River. Just north of the city proper² is the site of Chan Chan, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This former city, said to be the largest in Latin America in its time,³ was the capital of the Chimor kingdom. The tallest building in the modern city is the SERVAT building (12 stories) topped by a Pepsi sign.⁴

External references

Chan Chan site, by Trujillo, Perú

Footnotes

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Peru, accessed 3/12/2014.
2. Graze the Chan Chan panel to see an arrow pointing to the location of the site relative to the city on https://www.google.com/maps/@-8.1256802,-79.0536909,7039m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en. The site is within the continuous urban zone of the later Spanish city.
3. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).
4. emporis.com, accessed 3/12/2014.