City of Trujillo - La Libertad

Trujillo is a city on the northern coast of Peru, capital of the Department of La Libertad, located 34 meters towards the right bank of the Moche River valley, a few kilometers from the Pacific Ocean. The urban area of Trujillo extends beyond the district close four other districts of the province of Trujillo, now the third largest metropolitan area and population of Peru, where more than 804 thousand inhabitants.

The City of Eternal Spring is renowned worldwide as the capital of the marinera, or the majestic International Spring Festival, as well as its numerous archaeological sites and wonderful history, its identity was created precisely in the ancient cultures that lived in coasts and valleys of the department of La Libertad and its heritage dates back more than 10 thousand years old, and its most important witnesses of the Huaca del Sol y la Luna, the citadel of Chan Chan.

The city was founded by Francisco Pizarro on March 5, 1535, on a territory traditionally inhabited by ancient civilizations. It was an administrative and commercial cities of the Viceroyalty of Peru, and continued to have an important political and economic power to historically Republican.
 
Functions as the commercial center of La Libertad region, where products are grown Carian elllos between sugar cane and rice. It is also a distribution center of goods and has establishments in the textile and food sectors.

Among the cultural heritage of the city of Trujillo, it is easy to highlight:

The church of the Company, of the seventeenth century; Trujillo Cathedral, built between 1647 and 1666 and the church or monastery of El Carmen, a valuable architectural and artistic vice regal art.

We will find the ruins of the pre-Inca city of Chanchan, located west of Trujillo, Huaca del Sol and Luna among some more.

The city center is populated with monuments, predominantly building product of religious architecture prevailing during the colonial period, plus mansions dating from the same era and the dawn of the republic, whose windows are distinctive duckboards like lace.

The metropolis of today, plus the combination of architectural pre-Columbian, colonial and republican, with modern residential areas, a dynamic central business district, and two industrial zones, consisting of the city's industrial park located in the district of La Esperanza and the industrial zone of Moche in the district of the same name.