Chan Chan

[ chahn chahn ]

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the site of the ancient capital city of the Chimu people, near the modern city of Trujillo, Peru, characterized by large walled enclosures and houses made of unfired mud brick covered with frescoes in brilliant colors.

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The complex is the second largest mud-brick city in Peru after Chan Chan in the north of the Andean country.

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Chan Chan, where the mass grave was found, was the largest mud citadel in pre-Columbian America.

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Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the remains of 25 people in the ancient city of Chan Chan.

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Some are archaeological sites, such as Peru’s Chan Chan, the largest adobe city on Earth, and the ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings in Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park.

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Six hundred years ago, Chan Chan in Northern Peru was the largest metropolis in the Americas.

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