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Bookmark & shareWealthy Trujillo still puts on a dashing show.
Spoiled by the fruits of the Moche Valley, Trujillo sparkles with glamorously colonial streets, flamboyant buildings and a profusion of churches. An historical hotbed of revolt and a magnet for poets and rebels, its neighbor is the behemoth Chan Chan, once the largest adobe city in the world.
Fast Facts
Population
768,300
Currency
Name: Nuevo Sol
Code: PEN
Symbol: S/
Electrical Plugs
220V 60Hz
Languages Spoken
Official: Quechua, Spanish; Castilian
Time Zones
GMT/UTC -5
Country Dialing Code
+51
Weights & Measures
Metric
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