The Valley of Moche, or Valley of Santa Catalina, is a large area of the La Libertad Region in northern Peru surrounding the Moche River. It has been farmed since the pre-Columbian era and currently contains rural and urban settlements. Trujillo is the most important city of the valley. It is now the location of several towns and agricultural areas where products such as sugarcane and asparagus are cultivated. The irrigation of its lands is part of the Chavimochic hydraulic engineering project.
The Valley of Moche, or Valley of Santa Catalina, is a large area of the La Libertad Region in northern Peru surrounding the Moche River. It has been farmed...
The Moche civilization (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmotʃe]; alternatively, the Moche culture or the Early, Pre- or Proto-Chimú) flourished in northern Peru...
its name of Moche River, which retains the same to its mouth at the sea. Moche (culture) Trujillo Valley of Moche Countryside of MocheMoche city List of...
Ñançenpinco began to further expansion both north and south of the MocheValleys. The first valleys seem to have joined forces willingly, but the Sican culture...
with its capital at the city of Chan Chan, a large adobe city in the MocheValley of present-day Trujillo, Peru. The culture arose about 900 CE. The Inca...
1 mi) west of Trujillo, Peru. Chan Chan is located in the mouth of the MocheValley and was the capital of the historical empire of the Chimor from 900 to...
Moche can refer to: Moche culture Moche, Trujillo, a city in Peru The Countryside of Moche The Moche River The Valley of MocheMoche District, one of 11...
archaeological complex located on the northern coast of Peru, in the MocheValley, in the Laredo District of La Libertad Region. It represents a series...
Gallinazo, and as mentioned, the Moche culture. One of the most important Cupisnique sites is Caballo Muerto in the MocheValley. In 2008, it was reported that...
cultivated on the coast; the MocheValley in Peru was particularly famous for them. They were a popular decorative motif in Moche art. In the United States...
sacrifice of children and camelids at the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site, MocheValley, Peru". PLOS ONE. 14 (3): e0211691. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1411691P. doi:10...
Moche portrait vessels are ceramic vessels featuring highly individualized and naturalistic representations of human faces that are unique to the Moche...
Chavimochic Chao ValleyMochevalley Chicama Valley Jequetepeque Valley Willey, G. R. (1953): Prehistoric settlement patterns in the Virù Valley, Peru. Bureau...
volcanic peak of Cerro Blanco, in the coastal desert near Trujillo at the MocheValley. The other major ruin at the site is the nearby Huaca de la Luna, a better-preserved...
located 4 km outside the modern city of Trujillo, near the mouth of the Moche River valley. The Huaca de la Luna, although it is the smaller of the two huacas...
San Jose de Moro is a Moche archaeological site in the Pacanga District, Chepén Province, La Libertad Region, of Northwestern Peru. The site served as...
the El Brujo site complex, Chicama Valley, Peru », ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | 2007 Quilter Jeffrey, « Moche: Archaeology, Ethnicity, Identity »...
but there are sites of urban proportions, such as Cerro Arena in the MocheValley, an extensive site with about 2000 stone structures distributed over...
Chiquitoy Santa Clara San José Paiján culture Trujillo Province Chicama ValleyMocheValley 7°42′47″S 79°06′56″W / 7.71306°S 79.11556°W / -7.71306; -79.11556...
It is part of the Moche or Santa Catalina valley and was a place of development in the Moche culture. In the countryside of Moche one can appreciate...