Trujillo Province (Peru)

The province of Trujillo is one of the twelve that make up the department of La Libertad on the north coast of Peru. It is located in the central and western part of the department and borders on the north with the province of Ascope; to the east, with the province of Otuzco; to the southeast, with the province of Julcán; to the south, with the province of Virú, and to the west, with the Pacific Ocean. And it has a population of 1,118,724, according to INEI, as of 2020. And it belongs to the Northern Macroregion of Peru.

History

It was created by the Provisional Regulation of November 12, 1821. It is the first of the twelve provinces that make up this region, since it is home to the city of Trujillo, departmental capital and the most important city in northern Peru.

Geography

Altitude and surface area

The province of Trujillo is located at an altitude of 34 m s. no. m. and has an area of 1779 km².

Trujillo Cathedral

Administrative organization

The province of Trujillo is divided into twelve districts:

• Trujillo
• Alto Trujillo
• The future
• Florence de Mora
• Huanchaco
• The Hope
• Laredo
• Moche
• Poroto
• Salaverry
• Simbal
• Victor Larco Herrera

Population

According to the results of the 2017 population and housing census, the province had a population of 970,016 inhabitants.

The following table shows the distribution of the provincial population, the number of households and dwellings in the twelve districts that make it up.

And, by the year 2020, it has a population of 1,118,724, according to INEI.

Authorities

Regionals

• Regional governor
• Manuel Llempén Coronel

• Regional advisers

• 1. Regional Councillor for Ascope Province: Greco Vladimir Quiroz Díaz
  2. Regional Councillor for Bolivar Province: Edgar López Chávez
  3. Regional councillor for the province of Chepén: Juan Fernando Díaz Sánchez
  4. Regional Counsellor of the Province of Gran Chimú: Karin Marly Vergara Portilla
  5. Regional Councillor for the Province of Julcán: Wilson Hitler Rodríguez
  6. Regional Councillor for Otuzco Province: Gonzalo Alfredo Rodríguez Espejo
  7. Regional Councillor for Pacasmayo Province: Edwin Martín Castellanos García
  8. Regional councillor for the province of Pataz: Luis Alberto Rodríguez Ponce
  9. Regional Advisor of the Prov.de Sánchez Carrión: Milagros Jennifer Catalán Corman
  10. Regional councillor of the prov.Santiago de Chuco: Santos Nicolás Vásquez Ibáñez
  11. Regional Councillor for Trujillo Province: Roberto Luis Portilla Lescano
  12. Regional Counsellor of Trujillo Province: Teresita de Jesús Bravo Malca
  13. Regional Councillor for Trujillo Province: Raúl Yván Lozano Peralta
  14. Regional Councillor for Trujillo Province: David Osvaldo Calderón de los Ríos
  15. Regional councillor of the province of Virú: Mirtha Margot Higa Urquiaga

Municipals

• 2019-2022
  • Mayor: Daniel Marcelo Jacinto, Alliance for Progress.
  • Regivers:
  1. José Prudencio Ruiz Vega (Alianza para el Progreso)
  2. Sandra Ivonne Trujillo Marreros (Alianza para el Progreso)
  3. Hernán Wilfredo Aquino Dionisio (Alliance for Progress)
  4. Andree Farek Gallo Lezama (Alliance for Progress)
  5. Andrés Eleuterio Sánchez Esquivel (Alianza para el Progreso)
  6. Noah Anticona Solórzano (Alliance for Progress)
  7. Victor Robert de la Cruz Rosas (Alliance for Progress)
  8. Sergio Vílchez Neira (Alianza para el Progreso)
  9. Nancy Imelda Vásquez Luján (Alliance for Progress)
  10. Raúl Alexander Lozano Peralta (Peruvian Aprist Party)
  11. Wilson Enrique Toribio Vereau (Peruvian Aprist Party)
  12. Juan Dolores Namoc Medina (Peruvian Aprist Party)
  13. Olga Amelia Cribilleros Shigihara (Peruvian Aprist Party)
  14. Jorge Alonzo Rodríguez Lázaro (All for Peru)
  15. Luis Fernando Bahamonde Amaya (Popular Force)

Festivities

• January: Marinera Festival
• March-April: Holy Week of Moche (Cultural Heritage of the Nation)
• September: Spring Festival
• October: Lord of the Miracles

Archaeological zones

Panoramic view of the Huaca del Sol, political capital of the Mochica culture, located south of Trujillo.

The city and metropolitan area contains important archaeological sites that are part of the cultural legacy of the Chimú and Mochica kingdoms. The archaeological zones are part of the Moche Route, which begins in what was formerly the seat of government of the Moche culture, the Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, approximately 4 kilometers south of the historic center of Trujillo, and covers a series of places that were part of the domains of the Mochica kingdom in its heyday.

• Huaca la Esmeralda: This archaeological site is associated with the Shimu culture and was built linked to Chan Chan. The temple is a building that has a rectangular base of approximately 65 meters long by 41 meters wide. It is made up of two platforms with central ramps. The first, located at the entrance, corresponds to the last stage constructive chimú; its decoration consists of fishing nets with fish inside it. Behind, the second platform and the oldest one has decoration similar to the Tschudi Palace with network designs and the marine otter. The adobe walls are decorated with zoomorphic and geometric motif reliefs. It is located three blocks from the church of Mansiche, of the urbanization La Esmeralda, in the old farm of the same name that occupied this area 3 kilometers from the center of the city. The archaeological site is considered « Monumental Patrimony of the Nation».

• Huaca del Dragon: Also called Huaca del Arco Iris, is located 4 kilometres north of the historic centre of Trujillo in the La Esperanza district, near Chan Chan. It is a religious monument, ceremonial and administrative centre built in adobe whose murals are decorated with friezes in relief showing anthropomorphic figures and representing the very stylized rainbow.

• Chan Chan: The largest adobe city in America was built by the Shimus; it is located 5 kilometres north-west of the historic center of Trujillo, near Mansiche Avenue leading to Huanchaco. UNESCO declared Chan Chan the heritage of humanity in 1986.

• Huacas del sol y de la luna: They are pre-Hispanic monuments located 5 km south of the historic center of Trujillo, in the district of Moche. This archaeological site physically represented the capital of the Mochica culture since the centuryIa. C. to the centuryIX; it is next to its museum one of the most visited places in the city.

• Huaca de los Reyes: It is an archaeological complex located in the district of Laredo, about 14 km east of the historical center of Trujillo. This monumental ensemble was investigated during the 1970s by the Chan Chan Valley Moche Project (M. Moseley and C. Mackey, 1973). It shows a scenario where the ritualistic architecture exposes the portrait of men and gods. Huaca de los Reyes, for the society Cupisnique represented the tangible reflection of the ritualistic ceremonial world -Hanan pacha and Kay pacha- which is the notion of duality, of space and social historical time. It is the oldest ceremonial center in the valley of Moche, belonging to the cupisnique culture, according to studies carried out by archaeologist Jorge Ruiz Barcellos. It is declared “Cultural Patrimony of the Nation”.

Chan Chan, capital of the Chimu kingdom

Museums and exhibition halls

The Museum of Modern Art of Trujillo founded by the artist Gerardo Chávez

Huacas de Moche Museum, located near the Huacas del Sol and the Moon archaeological complex, exhibit works developed by the Mochica culture.

Chan Chan Chan site museum, mainly dedicated to the exhibition of part of the work carried out by the Chimu culture.

The General Cemetery of Miraflores has the graves of historical characters such as Luis José de Orbegoso and Moncada and Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre.

• Toy Museum: It is located a few blocks from the city's gun plaza and has a café bar next; it is owned by the painter Gerardo Chávez, here you can find toys dating from the mid-centuryXX..

• Museum of Modern Art: It is located in the Semi-Ustical Urbanisation El Bosque. The museum shows works of both national and foreign painters, as well as sculptures. It was opened on November 30, 2006 by the artist Gerardo Chávez, who contributed to artistic and cultural development, made available to the public its wide and diverse collection of modern art.

• Casa de la Emancipación Museum: Located in a corner of the Gamarra jiron with the Pizarro jiron, it is a traditional cultural center and par excellence in Trujillo; here art exhibitions are presented and special ceremonies are held in its central courtyard. It is housed in a well-refurbished cassette and that it was the scene of the Trujillo Independence by Torre Tagle in 1820; it now belongs to the Continental Bank.

• Huacas del Sol de la Luna Museum or Huacas de Moche Museum: Located at the foot of the Huaca de la Luna in the Moche district, this museum was opened in 2010 and shows archaeological discoveries of the ceremonial Mochica religious centre.

• Museo del Colegio de Arquitectos de La Libertad: It is located in the heart of the historic center, the halls of the headquarters of the school expose artistic works of different authors, each time the exhibition is changed by another new one.

• Zoology Museum: Managed by the National University of Trujillo, the zoology museum is one of the oldest in the city; it shows a taxidermal exhibition of the varied fauna of the coast, mountains and jungle.

• Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History: Managed by the National University of Trujillo, the museum aims to show through seven rooms the development of the historical process on the north coast and particularly in the valleys of the La Libertad Region, from the arrival of the first inhabitants, about 12 000 years ago, to the arrival of the European colonizers in 1532. Emphasis has been placed on establishing a harmonious relationship between the museum and the pre-existing architecture of the house, resulting in the design and distribution of the exhibition modules, lighting systems, among other aspects. Since 1939 the museum has been providing the general public with the exhibition of local and national history, it has its headquarters of the Risco case in the jiron Junín n.o 682.

• Centro Cultural Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre: Inaugurated on July 12, 2010, it can find five rooms dedicated to the philosopher and politician Haya de la Torre. In these first five rooms the cultural life of the city of Trujillo is also reviewed, focusing on the main figures of the North Group; the “Trilce Group”. There are also five other rooms with itinerant exhibitions dedicated to art, where works of various artists have been exhibited among them by the painter Gerardo Chávez.

• Chan Chan Site Museum: The museum is at the foot of Chan Chan's ruins; inside are the important findings found in the Shimu city as well as studies on its political and religious division.

• Cathedral Museum: Managed by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Trujillo, the museum shows all the religious history of the city from the colony to the present day.

• Museum of History Casinelli: Located in the avenue Nicolás de Piérola, the museum presents samples of various cultures of the region such as Mochica culture and Chimu culture. It focuses on its art, ceramics and religious ceremonies, it also has mummies that are displayed in the museum.

• BCR Museum: Managed by the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, located in the case of Urquiaga, exhibits a unique collection of coins from the beginning of Peru to the present. It also maintains furniture and mention of the colonial and republican era as from this case Simon Bolivar led the government of the country.

• Cemetery General of Miraflores: This field was inaugurated in December 1831, is located at the intersection of the avenues Tupac Amaru and Miraflores; it has the mausoleums of notable characters such as José Cabero and Muñoz, the first mayor of Peru liberto and republican, of the priest Pedro José Soto and Velarde, who besides becoming the first vice president of Truj The Hippolyte of Bracamonte, the knight owner of the Chiclín and Sausal estates, besides being possessor of up to two nobiliary titles, went to history for becoming the precursor of the independentist ideas, providing that to his death all the slaves who served him were declared free, preceded in the cause of Ramón Castile and even Abraham Lincoln himself. It also has the tombs of Luis José de Orbegoso and Moncada and Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre.

Beaches

• Huanchaco: Balneario located 13 km from Trujillo. In Huanchaco visitors can enjoy the totora rides, delicious potages and crafts. You will also be able to visit the colonial church of the Virgin of Perpetual Help located on the top and observe the city from the viewpoint.
• Buenos Aires
• The Delights
• The Charco
• Salaverry

Media

Written press

Newspapers: La Industria, Correo, Satélite and Nuevo Norte

Television

Radius

Within this list, a large number of radio systems of national and local transmission are mentioned.

On FM:

Frequency	Name	Indicative	Stereo	RDS	Owner	Transmission and power point
87.7 FM	Audio from America TV	OCX-4G	No.	No.	America Television	1Kw
88.5 FM	Onda Cero	OCZ-4M	Yes.	No.	Pan American Group of Radios	10Kw
89.1 FM	Fashion	OCZ-4V	Yes.	Yes.: MODA	CRP Radios	10Kw
89.7 FM	National	OCW-4I	Yes.	No.	Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión del Perú	5Kw
90.3 FM	Happiness	OCZ-4B	Yes.	Yes.: FELICIDA	RPP Group	10Kw
90.9 FM	RPP	OCZ-4J	Yes.	No.	RPP Group	20Kw
91.5 FM	The Unforgettable	OCZ-4N	Yes.	Yes.: INOLVI	CRP Radios	10Kw
92.1 FM	Stereo Diplomat Radio	OCZ-4A	Yes.	No.		5Kw
92.7 FM	Karibeña	OBT-4C	Yes.	Yes.: KARIBENA	Universal Corporation	10Kw
93.5 FM	La Kalle	OCR-4M	Yes.	Yes.: THE KALLE	Universal Corporation	5Kw
94.1 FM	Radio Maria	OCZ-4T	No.	No.		5Kw
94.7 FM	No signal				Provincial Municipality of Trujillo
95.3 FM	Romantic Ritmo	OCR-4N	Yes.	No.: RITMO	CRP Radios	10Kw
96.1 FM	FM 96	OBR-4W	Yes.	No.	FM 96	5Kw
96.9 FM	New Time	OCZ-4R	Yes.	Yes._		5Kw
97.5 FM	Studio 92	OBZ-4C	Yes.	Yes.: STUDIO92	RPP Group	10Kw
98.3 FM	Oxygen	OAZ-4A	Yes.	Yes.: OXIGENO	RPP Group	10Kw
99.1 FM	The Great	OCX-4U	Yes.	No.		5Kw
99.9 FM	The Mega	OBZ-4D	Yes.	Yes.: THE MEGA	RPP Group	10Kw
100.5 FM	No signal			No.	CRP Radios
101.1 FM	Pan American	OCR-4V	Yes.	No.	Pan American Group of Radios	10Kw
101.9 FM	Frequency 100	OBZ-4F	Yes.	No.	Frequency 100 Radio	10Kw
102.7 FM	Star	OCZ-4D	Yes.	Yes.: ESTRELLA	Star Radios	10Kw
103.3 FM	Exitosa	OCZ-4H	Yes.	Yes.: EXITOSA	Universal Corporation	10Kw
104.1 FM	Wonderful.	OCZ-4G	Yes.	No.	FM Wonderful Radio	5Kw
105.1 FM	Nova	OCZ-4I	Yes.	Yes.: NOVA		10Kw
105.7 FM	FM Integrity	OCZ-4P	Yes.	Yes.: INTEGRID		10Kw
106.5 FM	New Q	OCZ-4L	Yes.	Yes.NEW Q	CRP Radios	10Kw
107.5 FM	The Area	OCZ-4L	Yes.	Yes.: LA ZONA	RPP Group	10Kw

Transportation

Internal transportation

Trujillo Terrapuerto is the main land terminal in the province of Trujillo. It is located at the southern entrance of the city. It was built in 2012-2013 by the Provincial Municipality of Trujillo on a 100,000 m² plot of land and a built area of 60,000 m². It has 42 ticket offices for transport agencies; 32 boarding platforms, 13 landing platforms, 3 bus stop areas waiting for peak hours, 200 parking spaces for private vehicles, 2 boarding lounges, 1 VIP boarding lounge, 1 landing lounge, parking, shops, Wi-fi, bathrooms, showers, cell phone charging area, cable TV, waiting room, games for children, ATMs and accessibility for people with disabilities.

Night view of Junín Avenue Húsares

The communications of the Trujillo road and transportation system operate in an interconnected way at three levels: The national, the regional, and the local or metropolitan, and maintain the operation of the city simultaneously: as an important nucleus of the national network of cities, as a regional capital and as an integrated metropolitan area. The Trujillo road network is hierarchical and comprises three levels:

National routes

The North Pan-American highway and the Evitamiento road. The layout of the future coastal highway is also planned, which guarantees direct flow without interruption.

Regional routes

The Salaverry-Juanjuí highway, the Salaverry-Santiago de Cao highway; the paved highway Trujillo-Chicama-Cascas; the Trujillo-Virú-Santiago de Chuco highway under construction and the Trujillo-Otuzco-Huamachuco-Pataz highway.

Local and metropolitan routes

From the local point of view, the city has an internal radio-centric configuration, with a ring road system starting from the historic center, consisting mainly of España avenue and América avenue and partially by the bypass road city. Among the main local roads, the Larco avenue, the España avenue, the América avenue and the Evitamiento road stand out.

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