Farfan

Farfán was an administrative center in the Jequetepeque valley on Peru’s northern coast. Its adobe compounds and controlled spaces formed part of the system by which the Chimú governed territories beyond their capital at Chan Chan. Canals carried river water to cultivated land in the dry valley. After the Inca conquest, the irrigation network continued to serve new fields and settlers, showing how later rulers built upon the engineering of earlier coastal societies.