Manchan

Manchán was a major Chimú provincial center in the Casma valley on Peru’s northern coast. Its adobe-walled compounds, plazas and storerooms formed an administrative settlement beyond the kingdom’s capital at Chan Chan. The site also preserves traces of the earlier Casma people and the interaction between local and Chimú traditions. Around the fourteenth century severe El Niño conditions affected the valley, leaving archaeological evidence of how its inhabitants responded to environmental disruption.