Chavin may refer to:

Places

* Chavín de Huantar, an archaeological site in Peru built by the Chavín culture *

Chavín District Chavín District is one of eleven districts of the province Chincha in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) ("National Institute of Statistics and Informatics" ...

, Chincha, Peru *

Chavín de Huantar District Chavín de Huántar District is one of sixteen districts of the Huari Province in Peru. Geography The Cordillera Blanca traverses the western part of the district. Some of the highest peaks of the district are listed below: Ethnic groups ...

, Huari, Peru *

Chavín de Pariarca District Chavín de Pariarca District is one of eleven districts of the province Huamalíes in Peru. Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the popula ...

, Huamalies, Peru *

Chavin, Indre Chavin () is a commune in the Indre department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Indre department The following is a list of the 241 communes of the Indre department of France. The communes cooperate in the followi ...

, a commune of the Indre ''département'' in France *

Chavin, Iran Chuin ( fa, چوئين, also Romanized as Chū’īn; also known as Chāvīn, Chawīn, and Shāhīn) is a village in Kumasi Rural District, in the Central District of Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population w ...

, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran * The Chavín parish belonging to the municipality of

Viveiro Viveiro () is a town and municipality in the province of Lugo, in the northwestern Galician autonomous community of Spain. It borders on the Cantabric Sea, to the west of Xove and to the east of O Vicedo. It has a residential population of o ...

, Spain

Other uses

Chinga Chavin Chinga Chavin is the stage name of American musician and advertising executive Nathan Allen "Nick" Chavin. Chavin released the album ''Country Porn'' in 1976 on Attic Records. Life and career Nick "Chinga" Chavin was born in 1944. He achieved consi ...

, U.S. musician * Chavín culture, an early culture of the Andean region, pre-dating the Moche culture in Peru *

Operation Chavín de Huántar Operation Chavín de Huántar was a military operation in which a team of 142 commandos of the Peruvian Armed Forces ended the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis by raiding the Japanese ambassador's residence and freeing the hostages held ther ...

, a Peruvian military operation that ended the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis * Rhinella chavin (''R. chavin''), a species of toad