Chan Chan - Huanchaco, Trujillo through time

Trujillo 2014–2019 4 photos of this spot

4 recent photographs taken at the same spot in Trujillo, spanning 2014–2019. Have an older picture of it? Add it and start this spot's timeline.

Ruins at Chan Chan near Huanchaco, on the outskirts of Trujillo, Peru, photographed in 2014. Chan Chan was the capital of the Chimu civilization and is regarded as the largest adobe city built in pre-Columbian America.

Chan Chan - Huanchaco, Trujillo 2014 Ruins at Chan Chan near Huanchaco, on the outskirts of Trujillo, Peru, photographed in 2014. Chan Chan was the capital of the Chimu civilization and is regarded as the largest adobe city built in pre-Columbian America.

20-Chan Chan-nX-21 2019 This 2019 image shows part of Chan Chan's Tschudi complex, one of several walled citadels that made up the Chimu capital before its conquest by the Inca in the late 15th century.

20-Chan Chan-nX-29 2019 Erosion from coastal rain has worn much of Chan Chan's adobe architecture over the centuries, though restored sections like this one, photographed in 2019, still show the Chimu capital's original decorative friezes.

20-Chan Chan-nX-30 2019 This 2019 photograph documents a corridor within Chan Chan's Tschudi complex, part of the largest earthen city built in ancient South America.