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Pucalá and the Museum Huaca Rajada - Sipán
March 18, 2024
Pucalá and the Museum Huaca Rajada - Sipán. Pucalá is a tiny town of around 10,000. It has several parks, a small bank, of course no supermarket, I saw one gas station, and all the other small shops one would expect. The town itself has nothing to offer a tourist, there is one hostal, but outside of town is the museum Huaca Rajada-Sipán. It is very interesting to those who like archeology. The museum includes many artifacts of the Moche nobles that were found in several tombs as well as many more artifacts from several other sites in the surrounding area. What you will see are findings obtained in 2007, the museum recreates the context in which pre-Hispanic funerary events took place for three figures of the Moche elite: the Warrior Priest (tomb 14), the Warrior Lord (tomb 16) and the Noble Warrior (tomb 15)—the oldest skeleton found to date in Sipán.
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Chongoyape, Perú
March 16, 2024
Santa Catalina de Chongoyape or simply Chongoyape is located east of Chiclayo, Perú and was founded in 1825. Chongoyape has a population of about 19,000. The town is located at the western edge of the Andes Mountains and has mountains on three sides, the fourth side is a valley loaded with sugar cane, corn, and rice farming. The name Chongoyape comes from the Quechua language and it means 'sad heart'. That is definitely not indicative of the people in the town. When I was out walking all over the town almost every person I passed greeted me.
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Chiclayo, Perú
March 15, 2024
Santa María de los Valles de Chiclayo (or simply Chiclayo) is located in the northwest coast of Perú and was founded in the mid-16th century. Chiclayo has a population of about 880,000. Before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, this area had been populated by various indigenous groups. The Cathedral of Chiclayo.is located in the main square of the city. It was built in the neoclassical style and dates from 1869. It was designed from drawings of Gustave Eiffel. Across from the main plaza is the Municipal Palace which dates back to 1919. Like so many other towns, the fountains in the various parks are not working. There is a park called Fountain Park, and it has many fountains. I was hoping to see them all spraying water but none were working.
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Lambayeque, Perú
March 13, 2024
Lambayeque is located in the northwest coast of Perú and was founded in 1553 with the name of San Pedro de Lambayeque. Lambayeque has a population of about 61,000. Prior to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors this area had been populated by various indigenous groups. But then Francisco Pizarro arrived and set up a camp which eventually became an important mission which he entrusted to a compatriate, Juan de Barbarán, in 1536. The town slowly grew into an important stopover on the route to Lima. In 1619, there was an earthquake that devistated the town of Trujillo and most of the elite class moved to Lambayete. Then in 1720, the town of Saña was flooded and pretty much the entire population relocated to Lambayete. By the late 1900s, the area was famous for its sugar cane production.
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Sullana, Perú
March 11, 2024
Sullana (pronounce the ll like a Y in English), is located in the northwest part of Perú was founded in July 1783. The entire metropolitan area of Sullana has about 200,000 people. Historianssay that this valley, the Chira Valley, used to be home to several indigenous groups as well as the Incas, that was until the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the early 1500s.
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