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    The Moche civilization (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmotʃe]; alternatively, the Moche culture or the Early, Pre- or Proto-Chimú) flourished in northern Peru...
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  • The Moche Route is a tourist destination that begins in the Peruvian city of Trujillo in what once was the seat of power of the Moche culture known as...
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    with the Huaca del Sol, the Huaca de la Luna is part of Huacas de Moche, which is the remains of an ancient Moche capital city called Cerro Blanco, by...
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    The Valley of Moche, or Valley of Santa Catalina, is a large area of the La Libertad Region in northern Peru surrounding the Moche River. It has been farmed...
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    government. Chimú culture Moche Cupisnique Marcahuamachuco 1970 Ancash earthquake Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Libertad Region. UNDiario...
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    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...
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    Moche portrait vessels are ceramic vessels featuring individualized and naturalistic representations of human faces that are unique to the Moche culture...
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  • The Moche River is one of the rivers of the Pacific Ocean slope, located in the northern coast of Peru, in La Libertad Region. On both sides of this river...
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    the coastal desert near Trujillo at the Moche Valley. The other major ruin at the site is the nearby Huaca de la Luna, a better-preserved but smaller temple...
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    countryside of Moche celebrate the festival of San Isidro Labrador. San Jose Festival Las Delicias beach Moche (culture) "(Spanish) La campiña de Moche". Retrieved...
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    Trujillo, Peru (category Cities in La Libertad Region)
    the banks of the Moche River, near its mouth at the Pacific Ocean, in the Moche Valley. This was a site of the great prehistoric Moche and Chimu cultures...
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    Aiapæc (category Moche sites)
    the mountains, is a mythical character identified in Moche iconography, and possibly the main Moche deity. According to some archaeologists, it may have...
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  • San Jose de Moro (category Moche culture)
    San Jose de Moro is a Moche archaeological site in the Pacanga District, Chepén Province, La Libertad Region, of Northwestern Peru. The site served as...
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    Lady of Cao (category Moche sites)
    given to a female Moche mummy discovered at the archeological site El Brujo, which is located about 45 km north of Trujillo in the La Libertad Region of...
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  • La Chapelle-d'Andaine (French pronunciation: [la ʃapɛl dɑ̃dɛn] ) is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016...
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    irrigation systems. Moche history may be broadly divided into three periods – the emergence of the Moche culture in Early Moche (CE 100–300), its expansion...
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    El Brujo (category Moche sites)
    of the complex but the biggest constructions on the site belong to the Moche culture. In this area, there are also the remains of the later Lambayeque...
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    scholar, Izumi Shimada, calls Cupisnique a possible ancestor of Mochica (Moche) culture with no mention of Chavin. Yet another scholar, Anna C. Roosevelt...
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    Moche (also spelled mochi or muchi; Kapampangan: mutsi) are Pampangan glutinous rice balls with a bean paste filling. Made from galapong (ground-soaked...
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    Sacrifice: Its Practice at Huaca de la Luna and Its Representation in Moche Iconography". In Pillsbury, Joanne (ed.). Moche Art and Archaeology in Ancient...
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  • the original 1960 English translation. The name is written as "Moché-le-Bedeau" in La Nuit (1958); "Moshe" in Night (1960, 1982); "Moshe", "Moishele"...
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    most of them have been weak. El Niño may have led to the demise of the Moche and other pre-Columbian Peruvian cultures. A recent study suggests a strong...
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    grouping of the Chimú culture. The culture arose about 900 CE, succeeding the Moche culture, and was later conquered by the Inca emperor Topa Inca Yupanqui...
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  • Historic Centre of Trujillo city. Trujillo, Peru Víctor Larco Herrera La Libertad Region Simbal Moche River Location of La Esperanza by Wikimapia v t e...
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    also once part of the Moche culture, which dominated Northern Peru 100 to 700 AD. The Lord of Sipán was the ruler of the Moche and the Sipán mummies are...
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    Huanchaco (category Cities in La Libertad Region)
    established 4 km away. It was also the main port during Moche period, and was described by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega as the preferred port of the Incas. Archaeologists...
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  • Moche District is one of eleven districts of the province Trujillo in Peru. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información...
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    going to happen" (C'est moche, c'est sale, c'est dans le vent.) A remarkable number of the founding members of the Café de la Gare went on to become famous...
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  • amour) 1912: La Moche 1912: L'Heure du berger 1912: La Folle de Pen-March (La Folle de Penmarch) 1912: Les Enfants perdus dans la forêt 1912: La Dernière...
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  • de la Luna, more than one-quarter of all fish bones were this species, revealing that it already played an important role as a food to the Moche. Froese...
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