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TRUJILLO

A GREAT NATURAL BOOK
From the coasts of Chicama and Huanchaco to the humid forests of the Marañon basin, all through the inter Andean valleys of Huamachuco, Otuzco and Santiago de Chuco, the La Libertad region is a great open book that allows us to get acquainted with a large portion of Peru's rich geography. This is a journey that begins, from an eagle's eye view, on the cold waters of the Pacific Ocean...
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ON GODS AND MUD
The first groups of humans to inhabit La Libertad can be traced back about 12.000 years, to a time when South America's first dwellers had arrived; highly specialized hunter-gatherers who brought a vast experience of development from the Asian continent with them.

On the coast they used to capture fish using missile points as spears, catch small animals and hunt deer as part of...
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NOSTALGIC FOR TRUJILLO
Despite the fact that I lived just for a few years in Trujillo, I can never stop thinking about this city. It's part of my skin. My memories are extraordinary, particularly the ones that take place in the urban portion of the city. I remember it as enormous, as we all do when we are young. I can still distinguish the old wall that enclosed the city, which I began discovering by parts because...
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FESTIVE STORIES OF LA LIBERTAD
In La Libertad, celebrating Christs, saints and virgins is a tradition that goes back many centuries. These celebrations are filled with a spirit of faith that is renewed everyday, and with an eternal legend that talks about miracles and old stories, like the one about the theological soup during Easter in Moche; or the two virgins in Guadalupe; or the eggplant marmalade in Huaranchal; or...
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MEN OFF THE SEA:
MARITIME CIVILIZATIONS ON THE PERUVIAN COAST
Central coast of Peru. 12,000 years ago
At the first light of morning, a thick fog covers the countryside surrounding the hills that, with the passing of every year, form the final slopes of the Andes and which are very close to the coastline. As the morning light grows, a green carpet appears on the horizon, covering the neighboring hilltops. A pair of Least...
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MARINE MYTHS
In her book, Fishing: XVI and XVII centuries, the researcher, Maria Rostworowski, makes the following reflections. “From the Peruvian shore, the vista of the ocean is infinite. The sun rises above the towering mountains to disappear in these restless ocean solitudes. What worries would have stricken the yungas (people who live on the coast) to think that the ocean had, in its bosom, divine...
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TO THE CONQUEST OF THE SEA:
FISHHOOKS, NETS, HARPOONS, AND OTHER FISHING TOOLS
Even if the use of the very first fishing tackle, fishhooks, lines, and harpoons has not been 100% established because of the lack of archeological evidence, it could still be assumed that the men of the coast used tools to extract their first fish more or less 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. The researcher, Junius Bird, excavated several garbage dumps in the northern part of Chile and found several...
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WAY OF FISHING IN ANCIENT PERU
From gathering shellfish on the rocks to the large scale fishing done on rafts and caballitos de totora, which congregated thousands of fishermen in the ocean, ways of fishing on the Pre-Hispanic coast evolved, through thousands of years, towards a greater capture rate and a greater amount of community effort, especially when using huge drift nets and large scale ritual fishing done in the north...
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OPEN SEA:
THE BOATS OF ANCIENT PERU
Perhaps the most important change made by the Pre-Hispanic men of the coast was the invention of the boat. Hermann Buse describes it in this way: “…So, forced to adventure into deep waters, with hands freed to fish (i.e., and this is the important thing, not swimming), he resorted to a chance ‘floating log or to handful of reeds’. He straddled that floating log or that...
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MARITIME TRADE
The anonymous document, Aviso de el modo que havia en el gobierno de los indios en tiempo del inga, recovered by Maria Rostworowski, makes a reference that in the Chincha valley, “there were…six thousand merchants, and each one of them were fairly well off…and with their buying and selling, they went from Chincha to Cusco and throughout all of Collao, and others went to Quito...
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EPILOGUE A FUTURE FOR THE SEA
As it was two thousand years ago, when the Mochica and Nasca societies lived entirely from the sea and the fish, mankind of today has an important source of resources, both nutritional and economical, in the Peruvian coastal waters. Peru is the second largest producer of fish flour in the world; however, the table of the coastal dweller receives a minimal part of the biomass captured in their...
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