La Libertad
Province of Trujillo
Trujillo Province

Trujillo

Trujillo is a city of 790,000 people in Northwestern , 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.
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  • Type: City with 920,000 residents
  • Description: city of Peru, capital of La Libertad region
  • Also known as: “Trujillo, Peru”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of Trujillo, Peru and Palacio Iturregui.

Church
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Trujillo Cathedral is the cathedral and main church of Trujillo, Peru. Its construction took 19 years, from 1647 to 1666. In 1967, it was elevated to the category of "Minor Basilica".

Photo: Pitxiquin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Museum
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The Huaca La Esmeralda is an archaeological building belonging to the Chimu culture, is located in the city of Trujillo. It is estimated that the adobe construction was done during the first stage of development of the Chimu culture, in close link with the capital .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Esperanza.

Suburb
is a city in Northern , capital of the district in Trujillo Province of the region La Libertad. This city is located some 4 km north of the Historic Centre of Trujillo city.

Trujillo

Latitude
-8.1117° or 8° 6′ 42″ south
Longitude
-79.0288° or 79° 1′ 44″ west
Population
920,000
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
IATA airport code
TRU
United Nations Location Code
PE TRU
Open location code
6732VXQC+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 272377981
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3691175
Wiki­data ID
Q214173
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Trujillo” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Trujillo, Pèru”
  • Achinese: “Trujillo”
  • Afrikaans: “Trujillo”
  • Akan: “Trujillo”
  • Arabic: “تروخيلو”
  • Arabic: “تروخيو، بيرو”
  • Arabic: “تروخيو”
  • Armenian: “Տրուխիլիո”
  • Asturian: “Trujillo”
  • Aymara: “Trujillo, Piruw”
  • Aymara: “Trujillo”
  • Basque: “Trujillo”
  • Belarusian: “Трухільё”
  • Belarusian: “Трухільлё”
  • Belarusian: “Трухілья (Перу)”
  • Belarusian: “Трухілья”
  • Bengali: “ত্রুজিলু”
  • Breton: “Trujillo”
  • Bulgarian: “Трухильо”
  • Catalan: “Trujillo”
  • Cebuano: “Trujillo”
  • Chinese: “特魯希略”
  • Chinese: “特鲁希略”
  • Chuvash: “Трухильо”
  • Czech: “Trujillo”
  • Danish: “Trujillo”
  • Dutch: “Trujillo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تروخيلو”
  • Esperanto: “Trujillo”
  • Estonian: “Trujillo”
  • Fijian: “Trujillo”
  • Finnish: “Trujillo”
  • French: “Trujillo”
  • Galician: “Trujillo”
  • Georgian: “ტრუხილიო”
  • German: “Trujillo”
  • Greek: “Τρουχίγιο”
  • Guarani: “Trujillo”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્રુજિલો”
  • Hausa: “Trujillo”
  • Hebrew: “טרוחיו”
  • Hindi: “त्रुहियो”
  • Hungarian: “Trujillo”
  • Indonesian: “Trujillo”
  • Interlingua: “Trujillo”
  • Interlingue: “Trujillo (Perú)”
  • Interlingue: “Trujillo”
  • Irish: “Trujillo”
  • Italian: “Trujillo”
  • Japanese: “トルヒーリョ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Trujillo”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ರುಜಿಲೊ”
  • Kongo: “Trujillo”
  • Korean: “트루히요”
  • Ladino: “Trujiyo”
  • Latin: “Truxillum”
  • Latin: “Turgalium”
  • Latvian: “Truhiljo”
  • Literary Chinese: “特魯希略”
  • Lithuanian: “Truchiljas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Trujillo”
  • Macedonian: “Трухилјо”
  • Macedonian: “Трухиљо”
  • Malagasy: “Trujillo”
  • Malay: “Trujillo, Peru”
  • Malay: “Trujillo”
  • Maltese: “Trujillo”
  • Maori: “Trujillo, Perū”
  • Maori: “Trujillo”
  • Marathi: “ट्रुजिल्लो”
  • Moksha: “Трухильа”
  • Moksha: “Трухильо”
  • Nauru: “Trujillo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Trujillo”
  • Norwegian: “Trujillo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Trujillo”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Trujillo”
  • Ossetian: “Трухильо”
  • Persian: “تروخیو”
  • Polish: “Trujillo”
  • Portuguese: “Trujillo”
  • Quechua: “Truhillu”
  • Quechua: “Truxillo”
  • Quechua: “Truxillu”
  • Romanian: “Trujillo, Peru”
  • Romanian: “Trujillo”
  • Russian: “Трухильо”
  • Sardinian: “Trujillo”
  • Scots: “Trujillo, Peru”
  • Scots: “Trujillo”
  • Serbian: “Трухиљо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Trujillo”
  • Sinhala: “ටෘජිලෝ, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “ට්රුජිල්ලෝ”
  • Slovak: “Trujillo (Peru)”
  • Slovak: “Trujillo”
  • Slovenian: “Trujillo, Peru”
  • Slovenian: “Trujillo”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Bolívar”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Trujillo”
  • Spanish: “Trujillo de Nueva Castilla”
  • Spanish: “Trujillo Perú”
  • Spanish: “Trujillo”
  • Spanish: “Truxillo de Nueva Castilla”
  • Swedish: “Trujillo, Peru”
  • Swedish: “Trujillo”
  • Tamil: “துருகியோ, பெரு”
  • Tamil: “துருகியோ”
  • Tatar: “Truxilyo”
  • Tatar: “Трухильо”
  • Telugu: “ట్రుజిల్లో”
  • Thai: “ตรูฆิโย”
  • Turkish: “Trujillo”
  • Ukrainian: “Трухійо”
  • Ukrainian: “Трухільйо”
  • Urdu: “تروخیو، پیرو”
  • Urdu: “تروخیو”
  • Uzbek: “Truxilo”
  • Venetian: “Trujillo”
  • Vietnamese: “Trujillo, Peru”
  • Vietnamese: “Trujillo”
  • Volapük: “Trujillo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Trujillo, La Libertad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Trujillo”
  • Western Panjabi: “تروخیو، پیرو”
  • Western Panjabi: “تروخیو”
  • Wu Chinese: “特鲁希略（秘鲁）”
  • Wu Chinese: “特鲁希略”
  • Yue Chinese: “特魯希略”
  • “Troxillo”
  • “Trujillo”

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