Huacas de Moche Museum
Huacas de Moche Museum is a museum in Moche, Province of Trujillo, La Libertad. Huacas de Moche Museum is situated nearby to the garden Cactario, as well as near the tourism office iPerú.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Huaca de la Luna and Huaca del Sol.
Huaca de la Luna
Ruins
Photo: Pimpinellus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Huaca de la Luna is a large adobe brick structure built mainly by the Moche people of northern Peru. It sits roughly 5 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean, 4 km from the modern city of Trujillo, and near the mouth of the Moche River. Huaca de la Luna is situated 1 km north of Huacas de Moche Museum.
Huaca del Sol
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Huaca del Sol is an adobe brick pyramid built by the Moche civilization on the northern coast of what is now Peru. The pyramid is one of several ruins found near the volcanic peak of Cerro Blanco, in the coastal desert near Trujillo at the Moche Valley. Huaca del Sol is situated 1¼ km north of Huacas de Moche Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moche and Trujillo.
Moche
Town
Photo: Spanchrash, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Moche is a Peruvian city, the capital of Moche District in Trujillo Province of La Libertad Region in northern Peru. It is located in the Moche Valley and was the center of development of the ancient Moche or Mochica culture. Moche is situated 4 km southwest of Huacas de Moche Museum.
Trujillo
Trujillo is a city of 790,000 people in Northwestern Peru, very close to the Pacific Coast. Trujillo was founded in 1534 among 4 Chimu settlements to enable the Spanish to ally with them against the Incas.
Buenos Aires
Suburb
Buenos Aires is a coastal town and resort located in Víctor Larco Herrera district, in Trujillo, Peru. This locality is subdivided into three zones: Buenos Aires South, extending to the border with the Moche district, Buenos Aires Central limiting with Vista Alegre by east and the sector called Buenos Aires North extending up to the limit with Huanchaco. Buenos Aires is situated 7 km west of Huacas de Moche Museum.
Huacas de Moche Museum
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in La Libertad, Peru
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Moche, Province of Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-8.14183° or 8° 8′ 31″ southLongitude
-78.9924° or 78° 59′ 33″ westOpen location code
6733V255+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 1092992340OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q26813166
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In Other Languages
“Huacas de Moche Museum” goes by many names.
- Spanish: “Museo de Sitio Santiago Uceda Castillo”
- Spanish: “Museo Huacas de Moche”
- Spanish: “Museo Santiago Uceda Castillo”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cactario and iPerú.
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