Huanchaco District is one of eleven
districts of the province
Trujillo, located in
La Libertad Region,
Peru
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. The district in the year 2017 had 68,409 inhabitants.
[National Institute of Statistics and Information (INEI)- Peru ]
Huanchaco is one of the tourist districts of
Trujillo, has several tourist attractions, starting with the citadel of
Chan Chan
Chan Chan was the largest city of the pre-Columbian era in South America. It is now an archaeological site in La Libertad Region west of Trujillo, Peru.
Chan Chan is located in the mouth of the Moche Valley and was the capital of the historic ...
, the hill called "Cerro Campana" beaches like Huanchaco beach, Playa Azul, La Ribera, La Poza, El Silencio, El elio, etc. In Huanchaco there are multiple restaurants, hotels, lodges and private residences with ocean views. Huanchaco annually receives tourists from all over the world especially in summer, the horses of reeds or ''"
caballitos de totora
Caballitos de totora are reed watercraft used by fishermen in Peru for the past 3000 years, archaeologically evidenced from pottery shards. Named for the way they are ridden, straddled ('little reed horses' in English), fishermen use them to tran ...
"'', among other attractions is most appreciated by holidaymakers.
Populated places
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Huanchaco
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El Milagro
See also
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Trujillo
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Victor Larco city
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La Libertad Region
References
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