Located on the northern coast of present-day Peru, about 480 km north of Lima in the Moche valley, between the Pacific Ocean and the city of Trujillo, the World Heritage site “Chan Chan Archaeological ...

Once the capital of an empire, Chan Chan was the largest adobe city on earth. Courtesy of Flickr user Michel Gutierrez During its heyday, about 600 years ago, Chan Chan, in northern Peru ...

The Chimu Kingdom, with Chan Chan as its capital, reached its apogee in the 15th century, not long before falling to the Incas. The planning of this huge city, the largest in pre-Columbian America, ...