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Roots Earth in Trujillo: audio stories about 40 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in Trujillo, Peru, in Latin America. The Trujillo stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Trujillo, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: trujillo-peru.md

The 40 places in Trujillo with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Chan Chan
  2. Trujillo Cathedral
  3. Plaza de Armas of Trujillo
  4. Historic Centre of Trujillo
  5. Huaca de la Luna
  6. Huaca del Sol
  7. Huaca del Dragon
  8. Huaca Esmeralda
  9. El Brujo
  10. Huaca Prieta
  11. Caballo Muerto
  12. Moche Culture Heritage
  13. Chimu Culture Heritage
  14. Kingdom of Chimor
  15. National University of Trujillo
  16. Archbishop's Palace of Trujillo
  17. Marinera Dance Heritage
  18. Cesar Vallejo Cultural Heritage
  19. Trujillo Spring Festival
  20. Huanchaco
  21. Carlos Martinez de Pinillos Airport
  22. Salaverry Port District
  23. Estadio Mansiche
  24. Mansiche
  25. Victor Larco Herrera District
  26. Buenos Aires Beach
  27. Las Delicias
  28. Vista Alegre
  29. Moche Town
  30. Santiago de Huaman
  31. El Milagro
  32. El Porvenir District
  33. Florencia de Mora District
  34. Huanchaco District
  35. Swamps of Huanchaco
  36. Moche River
  37. Moche District
  38. Puerto Morin
  39. La Libertad Region
  40. Trujillo Province

Is there an audio guide for Chan Chan?

Yes. Chan Chan has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 40 Trujillo places in the app, at -8.10583333, -79.07444444. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Trujillo

Open Roots Earth and choose Trujillo. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 40 places in Trujillo, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 40 places in Trujillo, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Chan Chan

Coordinates
-8.10583333, -79.07444444
In one line
Chan Chan is the vast adobe capital of the Chimú kingdom, the largest earthen city in the ancient Americas. Walls carved with fish, seabirds, and waves enclose ten royal citadels near the Pacific coast.

2. Trujillo Cathedral

Coordinates
-8.11083333, -79.02833333
In one line
Trujillo Cathedral anchors the city's main square with a yellow Baroque facade and bell tower. Built between 1647 and 1666 after earthquakes, it holds gilded altarpieces, painted vaults, and a museum of colonial religious art.

3. Plaza de Armas of Trujillo

Coordinates
-8.1118, -79.0286
In one line
The Plaza de Armas is Trujillo's founding square, laid out in 1534. At its center stands the marble and copper Freedom Monument, unveiled in 1929, ringed by the cathedral and colored colonial mansions.

4. Historic Centre of Trujillo

Coordinates
-8.1115, -79.0285
In one line
Founded in 1534, Trujillo's historic centre is a grid of pastel colonial mansions, wooden balconies, and wrought-iron window grilles. The first Peruvian city to declare independence, it is known as the City of Eternal Spring.

5. Huaca de la Luna

Coordinates
-8.135, -78.9914
In one line
Huaca de la Luna is a Moche adobe temple built between the first and ninth centuries. Its stepped facades hold thousands of square meters of polychrome murals, including the fanged deity Ai Apaec, layered over six centuries of rebuilding.

6. Huaca del Sol

Coordinates
-8.1322, -78.9947
In one line
Huaca del Sol is the largest adobe pyramid in the ancient Americas, built by the Moche from over 130 million mud bricks. Spanish looters diverted the Moche River to mine it, and erosion has since claimed much of its mass.

7. Huaca del Dragon

Coordinates
-8.0765, -79.0489
In one line
Huaca del Dragón, also called Huaca Arco Iris, is a Chimú adobe temple near Trujillo. Its restored walls carry friezes of rainbows and serpent-dragon figures, set on a ramped, two-level ceremonial platform abandoned around 1450.

8. Huaca Esmeralda

Coordinates
-8.1046, -79.0474
In one line
A Chimú adobe platform mound rising in three terraces between Trujillo and the great capital of Chan Chan, decorated with relief diamonds and animal figures and built during the early development of the Chimú culture.

9. El Brujo

Coordinates
-7.91497778, -79.30548611
In one line
An archaeological complex in the Chicama Valley north of Trujillo, layered with thousands of years of occupation and famous for Huaca Cao Viejo, the Moche temple that held the tattooed mummy known as the Lady of Cao.

10. Huaca Prieta

Coordinates
-7.924, -79.307
In one line
A dark prehistoric refuse mound at El Brujo in the Chicama Valley, occupied for thousands of years and counted among the oldest human settlements on the Peruvian coast, famous for ancient twined textiles and early indigo dye.

11. Caballo Muerto

Coordinates
-8.0712, -78.9104
In one line
An ancient ceremonial complex in the Moche Valley near Trujillo, built by Cupisnique people around 1500 to 400 before the common era and famous for Huaca de los Reyes, whose adobe friezes feature monumental clay heads.

12. Moche Culture Heritage

Coordinates
-8.135, -78.9914
In one line
A coastal civilization that flourished in northern Peru from roughly 100 to 800, renowned for lifelike portrait ceramics, masterful goldwork, monumental adobe huacas, and elite tombs such as the Lord of Sipán and the Lady of Cao.

13. Chimu Culture Heritage

Coordinates
-8.10583333, -79.07444444
In one line
A north-coast Peruvian culture that flourished from around 900 to 1470, centered on the great adobe city of Chan Chan and famed for master metalwork, glossy blackware ceramics, and vast irrigation works before its conquest by the Inca.

14. Kingdom of Chimor

Coordinates
-8.10583333, -79.07444444
In one line
A major state in the Andes during the Late Intermediate Period, founded around 900 and centered on Chan Chan, the Kingdom of Chimor commanded roughly 1,000 kilometers of Peru's coast until the Inca conquered it around 1470.

15. National University of Trujillo

Coordinates
-8.11472222, -79.03861111
In one line
Founded in 1824 by Simon Bolivar, the National University of Trujillo is Peru's first republican university. Its historic halls trained poets, reformers and presidents, and its archaeology museum guards Moche and Chimu treasures from the surrounding valley.

16. Archbishop's Palace of Trujillo

Coordinates
-8.1107, -79.0283
In one line
Seat of an archdiocese established in 1577 and raised to metropolitan rank in 1943, the Archbishop's Palace stands on Trujillo's Plaza de Armas. Its blue facade, carved balcony and quiet courtyard mark the spiritual center of Peru's northern coast.

17. Marinera Dance Heritage

Coordinates
-8.1118, -79.0286
In one line
A graceful coastal courtship dance named in 1879 for the Peruvian Navy, the Marinera blends indigenous, Spanish and African roots. Trujillo, its recognized birthplace, crowns champions each January and dances it with white handkerchiefs and Peruvian paso horses.

18. Cesar Vallejo Cultural Heritage

Coordinates
-8.1115, -79.0286
In one line
Poet Cesar Vallejo, born in 1892 and dead in Paris in 1938, studied and was imprisoned in Trujillo, where his radical voice took shape. Author of Trilce, he ranks among the great innovators of 20th-century poetry in any language.

19. Trujillo Spring Festival

Coordinates
-8.1118, -79.0286
In one line
Held each year since 1950 between late September and early October, the Trujillo Spring Festival fills the City of Eternal Spring with parades, beauty queens, allegorical floats, Peruvian paso horses and marinera. It draws roughly 25,000 visitors to one of Peru's largest celebrations.

20. Huanchaco

Coordinates
-7.7, -79.43333333
In one line
A seaside fishing town near Trujillo, Huanchaco still rides the caballitos de totora, reed boats used for thousands of years. Once the port of Chan Chan, it became Latin America's first World Surfing Reserve in 2012 and claims to be the birthplace of ceviche.

21. Carlos Martinez de Pinillos Airport

Coordinates
-8.08055556, -79.10833333
In one line
Northern Peru's main air gateway, this Trujillo airport carries the IATA code TRU. It is named for Carlos Martinez de Pinillos, a Trujillo-born aviation pioneer, and links the City of Eternal Spring to Lima and beyond by a single asphalt runway.

22. Salaverry Port District

Coordinates
-8.117, -79.033
In one line
Salaverry is the working port of Trujillo, a coastal district founded in 1879 some fourteen kilometers from the colonial center. Cargo ships, fishing boats, and a long Pacific shoreline define its salt-air, industrial character.

23. Estadio Mansiche

Coordinates
-8.106655, -79.030977
In one line
Trujillo's main stadium, inaugurated in 1946 and holding around 25,000 spectators. Home to Carlos A. Mannucci and Universidad César Vallejo, it has hosted the Copa América and a FIFA youth World Cup.

24. Mansiche

Coordinates
-8.10327222, -79.04083056
In one line
An old town on Trujillo's northwest edge, known since colonial times as San Salvador de Mansiche. Once the city's outskirts, it keeps its colonial church and lends its name to Trujillo's largest sports complex.

25. Victor Larco Herrera District

Coordinates
-8.13333333, -79.05
In one line
A coastal residential district of Trujillo created in 1943 and renamed for the philanthropist Víctor Larco Herrera. Known for Buenos Aires beach, leafy avenues, paso-horse ranches, and one of the metropolitan area's highest quality of life.

26. Buenos Aires Beach

Coordinates
-8.144325, -79.05531389
In one line
Trujillo's long Pacific beach in the Víctor Larco Herrera district, a coastal resort since the late 19th century. A railway brought by Víctor Larco Herrera in 1915 spurred its growth into a beloved seaside escape.

27. Las Delicias

Coordinates
-8.18231667, -79.01404444
In one line
A beach resort in Trujillo's Moche district, set between Buenos Aires and Salaverry near the ancient Moche heartland. Its March festival of San José fills the shore with parades, Spanish-flavored celebration, and crowds of summer visitors.

28. Vista Alegre

Coordinates
-8.13893056, -79.04824167
In one line
A fully urbanized town in Trujillo's Víctor Larco Herrera district, about one kilometer from the Pacific. Built around a central square with its church, schools, and hospital, it connects inland to Buenos Aires beach.

29. Moche Town

Coordinates
-8.17061667, -79.00943056
In one line
Moche is a small town in the Moche Valley south of Trujillo, the heartland of the ancient Mochica culture. Today it draws visitors with seafood, beach festivals, and the great adobe huacas nearby.

30. Santiago de Huaman

Coordinates
-8.13797778, -79.03936111
In one line
Santiago de Huamán is an old town on the western edge of Trujillo, home to a Baroque church begun in the early 17th century, said to be the oldest standing Catholic church in the city, and a centuries-old patron festival.

31. El Milagro

Coordinates
-8.02835833, -79.06722222
In one line
El Milagro is a fast-growing settlement north of Trujillo, part of the Huanchaco district. Young, working-class, and built largely on fishing, it sits near Chan Chan and the coastal wetlands and has long sought its own district status.

32. El Porvenir District

Coordinates
-8.0739, -78.9929
In one line
El Porvenir is a populous district of Trujillo, founded in 1965 and famous as Peru's shoemaking heartland. Densely settled and hardworking, it hosts the annual Calzaferia footwear fair and home workshops by the thousand.

33. Florencia de Mora District

Coordinates
-8.08, -79.02
In one line
Florencia de Mora is the smallest and most densely packed district of Trujillo, created in 1985. Squeezed into about 2 square kilometers, it is a tightly knit working-class community on the city's northeastern edge.

34. Huanchaco District

Coordinates
-8.08055556, -79.10833333
In one line
Huanchaco is a coastal district of Trujillo famous for its caballitos de totora reed boats, its surf, and its beaches. It spans Chan Chan and a long Pacific shoreline, blending ancient fishing tradition with seaside tourism.

35. Swamps of Huanchaco

Coordinates
-8.0606, -79.1284
In one line
The Swamps of Huanchaco are coastal wetlands near Trujillo where totora reed has been cultivated since Moche times to build the caballitos de totora. Protected as an ecological reserve, they keep an ancient seafaring craft alive.

36. Moche River

Coordinates
-8.1622, -79.0346
In one line
The Moche River runs roughly 107 kilometers from the Andean highlands to the Pacific near Trujillo. Its valley nourished the Moche and Chimú cultures, whose canals and adobe cities still mark the desert it waters.

37. Moche District

Coordinates
-8.17, -79
In one line
Moche District, just south of Trujillo, gives its name to an ancient civilization. Home to roughly 37,000 people and the Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, it is known for ceviche, fishing, and deep coastal tradition.

38. Puerto Morin

Coordinates
-8.40332778, -78.89596667
In one line
Puerto Morín is a quiet fishing village and beach on the Guañape cove, about 45 kilometers south of Trujillo in Virú District. Named for a 19th-century French dock builder, it is the gateway to the wildlife-rich Guañape Islands.

39. La Libertad Region

Coordinates
-8, -78.5
In one line
La Libertad is the only Peruvian region spanning coast, highlands, and rainforest. Created in 1821 and renamed in 1825 to honor its role in independence, it is capitaled at Trujillo and home to Chan Chan and the Moche pyramids.

40. Trujillo Province

Coordinates
-8.117, -79.033
In one line
Trujillo Province, on Peru's northern coast, covers about 1,769 square kilometers across twelve districts and nearly a million people. Centered on the city of Trujillo, it bundles together beaches, surf towns, farmland, and the great archaeological sites of the Moche Valley.

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