Chimú Culture
About the Chimu's
Where lived the Chimu's?
The Chimú were the residents of Chimor, with its capital at the city of Chan Chan, a large adobe city in the Moche Valley of present-day Trujillo city of Peru. The culture arose about 900 AD. The Inca ruler Tupac Inca Yupanqui led a campaign which conquered the Chimú around 1470 AD.
As living
Eat and Agriculture
The Chimú cultivated beans, sweet potato, papaya, and cotton with their reservoir and irrigation system.
Activities
They engaged in fishing, agriculture, and metallurgy, and made ceramics and textiles (from cotton, llama, alpaca, and vicunas wool). People used reed fishing canoes, hunted, and traded using bronze coins.
Metallurgy
While the Moche's were excellent potters, Chimu's, however, have achieved celebrity among the most EMINENT AMERICAN CONTINENT ORFEBRES PRECOLOMBINO.
Magical Peru #5: Chan Chan and the Chimú Empire