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Chan Chan

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Chan Chan  (chän chän)
A ruined pre-Incan city on the northern coast of Peru, built after a.d. 850. It may once have had a population of 200,000.


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Now, in addition to visiting the ancient Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, passengers can travel with LanPeru to witness Trujillo's ruins of Chan Chan, considered the largest mud-brick city in the world, and the pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, the tallest adobe structure in the Americas.
Travelers will spend the next couple of days in Trujillo, touring the city and its colonial district, visiting the Archaeological Museum and the citadel of Chan Chan, the ancient capital of the 13th-century Chimu Empire and the finest example of pre-Inca architecture in the world.
 
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