Trujillo Climate

Trujillo Climate

Trujillo has a dry climate with an average temperature of 21°C (70°F). The summers can reach temperatures over 32°C (90°F) and the winters are never colder than 14°C (57°F). Most of the year, the temperature stays in the low to mid twenties.
Trujillo is known as La Ciudad de la Eterna Primavera (The City of Eternal Spring), because of its sunny and pleasant weather year-round. The International Spring Festival in early October attracts visitors from all over Peru and the world.

The historic centre of Trujillo

The historic centre of Trujillo

 

Trujillo is a city of the north Coast of Peru, the capital of the Department of The Freedom and of the Province of Trujillo. It is located to an altitude of 34 msnm, towards the right margen of the valley of the river Moche and to few kilometres of the Pacific Ocean.
 Though it can be concebida as an alone city, Trujillo does not constitute an alone administrative unit; rather it is the core or principal urban center of a metropolitan area that spreads on a territory of 110 thousand hectares; [3] and it is shaped by 9 municipalities of the province, of which 5 are completely conurbanados, whereas the remaining ones 4 it are partially, and in which there resides a population superior to 804 thousand inhabitants; being constituted as the third metropolitan area most filled with Peru.

Tourist attractions 

*Historical center

 The historical center of Trujillo occupies an area of 133.5ha and is shaped by a total of 1,783 lots, which grouped in 72 apples, are located inside the zone that was known as the " Enclosure of Trujillo ", and that originally was delimited by the wall of of the city. [37]

 Nowadays historical center of Trujillo possesses an approximate population of 12,000 inhabitants and Spain is surrounded by the Avenue; in they can find numerous constructions that date back to the periods viceregal and republican; between the tourist attractions that it offers, we can count the following ones

*Church Carmen

this temple that stands out for the harmony of his architecture, was

 constructed in the 18th century. They are of interest his diverse altars and the pulpit of wood. It possesses near 150 paintings, part of they of the of Quito school of the XVIIth and XVIIIth century. Likewise there is a so called linen " the last dinner " of Otto van Veen who was a teacher of the Flemish artist Pedro Paul Rubens. It is necessary to highlight the meticulous labor of his carved cutlery with " golden bread ".

*Church of the Mercy,

 this temple dates back to the 17th century, which design and construction belongs to the Portuguese citizen Alonso de las Nieves, has a mixture of architectural styles in his front. Interesting it is his organ of style rococo.

Agroindustry
 Trujillo is an agricultural, commercial center and of transport due to the areas of production which it possesses. The extension of the irrigated agriculture caused an expansive growth in the city, specially the agroindustry of the sugar cane, which took as his maximum expression to the Agrarian Sugar Cooperative Mansion (today Company Agroindustirial Casa grande S.A.).

Between his products more known internationally, stand out the asparagus that are exported principally to the neighboring countries, The United States, Europe and other places; it is necessary to mention that Peru in 2007 was the major exporter of asparagus, [24] such a product supports a stable level of quality. In addition, the impulse that comes taking the Special Project Chavimochic, which includes the irrigation of the valleys of Chow, Virú, Moche and Chicama, it has achieved the successful export of many other agricultural and agroindustrial products, which include to the artichoke, chili páprica, avocado, handle, etc.

Huacas of the sun and of the Moon

Huacas of the sun and of the Moon

 

The complex archaeological Huacas of the Sun and of the Moon includes two big pyramids you truncate, the Huaca Las You Star, Huaca of the White Hill, geoglifo of the Spider and other constructions located in the north coast of Peru, in a landscape characterized by the imponencia of the White Hill, the vegetation that grows thanks to the waters of the river Moche and the nearness to the sea.

 Both huacas constituted the center of the power of the thousand-year-old people mochica, that developed between the año 100 and 900 A.D.. Nowadays the archaeological complex, also known as Huacas de Moche, includes approximately 60 hectares of extension.

 

Location

The Huacas del Sol y de la Luna are located in the lower to mid valley, on the left bank of the Moche river on a plain below the imposing Cerro Blanco.

Today the Huacas are surrounded by farmland in the province of Trujillo, department of La Libertad, five kilometers south of the city of Trujillo and 6 kilometers inland. We don't know the original names of these monuments, but they have been called the Huacas del Sol y de la Luna for the past century.

 Huacas of the sun and of the Moon is another fantastic place in peru come to visit!

CHan Chan

CHan Chan

 

Chan Chan (of the quingnam Chang or Chan that means Sun, with what Chan-Chan parts, literally: Sol Sol). It is had as hypothesis of his real meaning in Spanish: The Great Sun, shining Sun, resplendent Sun or reshining Sun (here one sees a typical feature of the language quingnam or chimú in that the reduplication of a word acquires a new meaning). It is supposed that the name owes him to the intense solar exhibition that was supporting the city. The above mentioned name comes from the transcriptions of the Spanish chroniclers.

 

It is a pre-Columbian city of adobe, constructed in the north coast of Peru for the chimú. It is the city constructed in bigger adobe of Latin America [1] and the second one in the world. It is located to the northwest of the Metropolitan Area of Trujillo between the districts of Trujillo and Huanchaco. It was declared as Heritage of the Humanity by the UNESCO in 1986 and included in the List of the Heritage of the Humanity in danger in the same year.

 

Location

 Chan Chan's citadel is located between Huanchaco and Trujillo (to 5 km from this one), in the Region The Libertad, on the north coast of Peru. One agrees in Moche's valley (former known as Chimor's valley). His location near to the beaches demonstrates the importance that had the fishing and the sea for the chimúes.

Architecture

 The architectural form in which Chan Chan is organized reflects that a strong stratification existed, with social different classes occupying different areas and own buildings to his economic condition. The citadels, for example, are protected by high walls and have an alone access, facilitating the control of those who were entering and going out. The citadels share formal characteristics, since:
 Detail of wall Chimú in Chan Chan's citadel.

     * They are areas surrounded of rectangular form.
 * They have north orientation / south.
 * They are divided in three sectors.
 * A high degree of planning is notable in his construction.
 * Principal access located in the northern part.
 * Similar zoning to the interior of the citadels.
 

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Huanchaco

 

Huanchaco's resort is located in the district of the same name. It is the most important and beautiful resort of the city of Trujillo, the capital of the Region The Libertad.
Huanchaco's name comes from Guaukocha (beautiful lagoon with golden fish). Today it is a traditional and picturesque resort, obligatory stop for the tourists who visit the city of Trujillo.
In the high part of the resort a beautiful colonial church gets up. In this church there is venerated the Holiest Virgin of the Help.

Caballito de Totora

 

Incrusted in the sand erect crafts rest of totora. Per centuries this one was the symbol, the demonstration, the palpable evidence of the respect of the population of the Peruvian coast for the subtle threads that weave the ecological balance. Bordering on the beach, in the distance a green almost imperceptible line. Of there there continues being extracted the material used during three to five milleniums [1] for the production of the rustic ships. They are the totorales, the wetlands, the marshy grounds. In the former language of the zone there are called they "wachakes", word that can be translated as " water eye " and that they say gives his name to this magic place: Huanchaco, one of the last redoubts of the caballitos of totora.

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