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	Huaca del Sol - Definition, explanation
		It has been estimated by archaeologists that the Huaca del Sol was composed of over 100 million adobe bricks and was the largest pre-Columbian adobe structure built in the Americas.
		The Huaca del Sol was composed of four main levels and the structure was expanded and rebuilt by different rulers over the course of time.
		During the Spanish occupation of Peru in the early 17th century, the waters of the Moche River were redirected to run past the base of the Huaca del Sol in order to facilitate the recovery of gold artifacts from the temple.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/h/hu/huaca_del_sol.php (370 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Huacas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In ancient Peru, a huaca was the term granted to a river, a tree or a mountain attributed with magical powers if the spot was inhabited by a deity or an ancestor; along the coast the term was given to stepped pyramid-shaped temples.
		The archaeological complex Huacas del Sol y de la Luna (Temple of the Sun and the Moon) which is located in the northern coast of Peru includes two big truncated pyramids, the Huaca Las Estrellas (Temple of the Stars), the Huaca del Cerro Blanco (White Hill Temple), the spider geoglyph and other constructions.
		In a landscape dominated by the imposing Cerro Blanco (White Hill), vegetation thrives because of the river Moche and the proximity of the sea.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Huacas (483 words)

	Huaca del Sol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Huaca del Sol as seen from the southeast, with the Moche River delta beyond and city ruins in the foreground.
		The Huaca del Sol was composed of four main levels and the structure was expanded and rebuilt by different rulers over the course of time.
		During the Spanish occupation of Peru in the early 17th century, the waters of the Moche River were redirected to run past the base of the Huaca del Sol in order to facilitate the recovery of gold artifacts from the temple.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Huaca_del_Sol (402 words)

	Huaca del Sol \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Huaca del Sol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It has been estimated by archaeologists that the Huaca del Sol was composed of over 100 million adobe bricks and was the largest pre-Columbian adobe structure built in the Americas.
		The Huaca del Sol was composed of four main levels and the structure was expanded and rebuilt by different rulers over the course of time.
		During the Spanish occupation of Peru in the early 17th century, the waters of the Moche River were redirected to run past the base of the Huaca del Sol in order to facilitate the recovery of gold artifacts from the temple.
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Huaca_del_Sol (378 words)

	Proyecto "Huaca de la Luna" - UNT (2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Today the Huacas are surrounded by farmland in the province of Trujillo, department of La Libertad, five kilometers south of the city of Trujillo and 6 kilometers inland.
		Although the Huacas at Moche were occupied during the span of north coast prehistory, the two largest monuments that give the site its name, the Huacas del Sol and Luna, were built by the Moche.
		Current research suggests that it was a ceremonial center and an urban settlement dominated by the Huacas del Sol and Luna¡ while the plain between the two Huacas was filled with cemeteries and housed a dense residential population.
	www.unitru.edu.pe /cultural/arq/huacas/huacasin2.html (1800 words)

	Moche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Huaca del Sol, a pyramidal structure on the Rio Moche, had been the largest pre-Columbian structure in Peru but was largely destroyed when Europeans mined its graves for gold.
		Every one of the 100,000,000 bricks in the Huaca del Sol had a maker's mark.
		Their adobe buildings have mostly been destroyed by looters and the elements over the last 1300 years, but the two huacas that remain show that the coloring of their murals was much more varied, with every color of the rainbow represented.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moche (914 words)

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		The complex is dominated by two huge adobe brick buildings: the Pyramid of the Sun, or Huaca del Sol, and the artificial platform called Huaca de la Luna, or Temple of the Moon.
		The name "Huaca del Sol" is really a misnomer, as there is no evidence to connect the building with any solar cult.
		Large-scale human sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna became evident when archaeologists uncovered the remains of at least 34 sacrificed adult male individuals in the soft clay of the southeastern court at the foot of the mountain.
	www.perutourism.com /newsletter3/sun.htm (1000 words)

	Proyecto "Huaca de la Luna" - UNT (2)
		Today the Huacas are surrounded by farmland in the province of Trujillo, department of La Libertad, five kilometers south of the city of Trujillo and 6 kilometers inland.
		Although the Huacas at Moche were occupied during the span of north coast prehistory, the two largest monuments that give the site its name, the Huacas del Sol and Luna, were built by the Moche.
		Current research suggests that it was a ceremonial center and an urban settlement dominated by the Huacas del Sol and Luna¡ while the plain between the two Huacas was filled with cemeteries and housed a dense residential population.
	arqueologia.deperu.com /huacas/huacasin2.html (1800 words)

	Sun and Moon temples, Trujillo Moche archaeology, Peru tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The complex is dominated by two huge adobe brick buildings: the Pyramid of the Sun, or Huaca del Sol, and the artificial platform called Huaca de la Luna, or Temple of the Moon.
		Like its counterpart on the opposite side of the plain, the Huaca de la Luna, it is oriented roughly 20 degrees east of north.
		Large-scale human sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna became evident when archaeologists uncovered the remains of at least 34 sacrificed adult male individuals in the soft clay of the southeastern court at the foot of the mountain.
	www.inkanatura.com /coastchiclayotrujillosunandmoontemples.asp (1076 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Moche
		Huaca del Sol, a pyramidal structure on the Rio Moche, had been the largest pre-Columbian structure in Peru but was largely destroyed when Europeans mined its graves for gold.
		Every one of the 100,000,000 bricks in the Huaca del Sol had a maker's mark.
		Their adobe buildings have mostly been destroyed by looters and the elements over the last 1300 years, but the two huacas that remain show that the coloring of their murals was much more varied, with every color of the rainbow represented.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Moche (975 words)

	Moche Sites
		Huaca del Brujo ("Pyramid of the Witch"), also known as simply El Brujo or Cao Viejo, near the mouth of the Chicama River, has not been excavated much until recent times and I have not had a chance to read the data which has been published in the last few years on the site.
		Huaca de la Luna ("Temple of the Moon") is the smaller of the two structures along the coast in the Moche valley.
		Huaca del Sol ("Temple of the Sun") is the larger of the two structures located where the Moche River flows into the Pacific, across a small burial field from the Huaca de la Luna.
	members.tripod.com /~Moche/Moche_Sites.html (1767 words)

	Moche
		Huaca de la Luna was the smaller, laying on the side of the White Hill.
		Huaca del Sol dominated the area, being one of the largest structures built of adobe in the Andes.
		This is due to such reliefs being depicted in Huaca de la Luna murals and friezes at Huaca Cao Viejo at El Brujo...with sacrifice shown in murals at Panamarca in the Nepena Valley...all large gathering centers.
	www.geocities.com /trekerq/Moche.html (614 words)

	Huaca de la Luna, Peru
		The farthest, Huaca del Sol (Temple of the Moon), was an administrative center, and the other, Huaca de La Luna, was a religious complex.
		On the huaca’s north face, archaeologists have discovered a stairwell and a horizontal mural of soldiers performing a victory dance.
		The top of Huaca de la Luna, nearly 10 stories high, offers an impressive view of Huaca del Sol, which was built with an estimated 100 million adobe bricks and is considered one of the largest adobe structures in the world.
	www.moon.com /planner/peru/mustsee/huaca_luna.html (539 words)

	Huaca Del Sol Y La Luna Peru - En Peru Blogs
		El clima es típica de la zona de sierra del Perú sol todo el día y una baja notable de la temperatura a partir de las últimas horas de la tarde y noche, en este momento ha termindao la temporadas de lluvias, pero hay que teer mucho cuidado con "cielito serrano".
		Huaca del Sol: Es un templo dedicado al dios Sol consistente en una pirámide escalonada de unos 43 metros de altura.
		Huaca de la Luna Situada a medio kilómetro de la Huaca del Sol, esta construcción destaca por tener templos que fueron superpuestos y construidos en diferentes períodos.
	www.perublogs.com /busca/huaca+del+sol+y+la+luna+peru (986 words)

	A look at ancient Peru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		El Huaca del Sol is one of the most religious and sacred monuments in Peru and has provided us with significant information on the culture and technological capabilities of the Peruvian people.
		El Huaca del Sol is located next to the city of Trujillo at the foot of White Hill and is approximately six kilometers from the coast.
		El Huaca del Sol is so important to the study of archaeology because it demonstrates the development reached and the advanced engineering and social planning of the Peruvian culture.
	itrs.scu.edu /anthroweb2/036/PeruWebsite/huacadelsol.html (446 words)

	Field School 07 :: Huaca de la Luna
		Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna are part of the Huacas of Moche Archeological Complex, one of the most important pre-Hispanic monuments on the north coast of Peru.
		The Huaca de la Luna Field School Program aims to awaken in students an interest in archaeological research of Moche society, one of the main cultural manifestations of the Peruvian north coast and of the Andean world.
		At the same time, the program seeks to instruct students in the archaeological excavation techniques used in the research of Moche sites, specially those employed in the study of what was at some point one of the main urban, political, and religious centers of this society.
	www.pucp.edu.pe /dric/fieldschool/02pd.html (331 words)

	Huaca del Sol: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The temple is one of several ruins found near the peak of Cerro Blanco, in the coastal desert near Trujillo, Peru (additional info and facts about Trujillo, Peru).
		It has been estimated by archaeologists that the Huaca del Sol was composed of over 100 million adobe bricks and was the largest pre-Columbian (additional info and facts about pre-Columbian) adobe structure built in the Americas.
		During the Spanish (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) occupation of Peru in the early 17th century, the waters of the Moche River were redirected to run past the base of the Huaca del Sol in order to facilitate the recovery of gold artifacts from the temple.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/huaca_del_sol.htm (389 words)

	Huaca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		ceremonial architecture was concentrated at Huaca Menocucho in the middle valley with the...
		Many of the civilizations of Peru have considered all the world to be sacred and alive, this concept meant that anything of significant beauty or strength would be called a huaca at the time of the conquest of Tahuantinsuyu, the Incas.
		If there was gold inside, they might change the course of a river to wash away an adobe burial mound, as they did at Huaca del Sol.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Huaca (616 words)

	Welcome to Adobe GoLive
		Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna formed sacred mountains towering over the city.
		Huaca del Sol rises forty-one meters above the plain, twothirds the height of the contemporary Pyramid of the Sun at the Mexican city of Teotihuacan.
		Huaca de la Luna is a complex of three platforms that were once interconnected and joined by high adobe walls.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/legacy/moche/el_nino_4.html (868 words)

	Peru Travel Guide by iLatinTravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The "Huaca del Sol" is the biggest, it has 498 m.
		These huacas are a sample of the highest technology that the Mochicas had in the art of building.
		This huaca, was an adoration temple of ritual character, it belongs to Chan Chan's citadel.
	www.ilatintravel.com /webapp/ilatintravel/articulo.jsp?cod=1998827 (470 words)

	Huaca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The huaca could also be the sacred location of one of the adopted (conquered) subkingdoms of the empire of the Incas or their preceeding empires, such as the complex at Lake Titicaca.
		A huaca could exist along a processional ceremonial line or route as they did for the enactment of sacred ritual within the capital at Cusco.
		The European conquererors considered huacas to be idols to lesser gods than theirs, but they could not easily destroy a mountain or even a rock with their primitive technologies.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/hu/Huaca.htm (909 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna are pyramids that dominate the Cerro Blanco, political capital and urban center of the Moche.
		Huaca del Sol served as a palace for Moche leaders, while Huaca de la Luna, due to the lack of residential remains, probably was a ceremonial site.
		The discovery and excavation of Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna were/are significant to the development of archaeology in Peru because they demonstrate the complexity and specialization in Moche society.
	itrs.scu.edu /anthroweb2/008/page5.htm (174 words)

	huaca del sol y de la luna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Huaca Del Sol was built of the fringes of the Moche valley farmland.
		The southern and the eastern sides of the Huaca Del Sol stand today because because of the hunters that diverted the Moche river that got rid of two-thirds of the Huaca Del Sol.
		Above is a picutre of The Huaca Del Sol y de la Luna all together.
	staff.esuhsd.org /~balochie/studentprojects/moche/solyluna.html (164 words)

	Huaca de la Luna
		The archaeological complex Huacas del Sol y de la Luna (Temple of the Sun and the Moon) which is located in the northern coast of Peru includes two big truncated pyramids, the Huaca Las Estrellas (Temple of the Stars), the Huaca del Cerro Blanco (White Hill Temple), the spider geoglyph and other constructions.
		Both huacas constituted the center of power of the millenary Mochica, a culture that developed from 100 to 900 a.C. Nowadays the archaeological complex, also known as Huacas de Moche (Moche Temples), encloses an area of 60 hectares.
		Both huacas are separated by an esplanade 500 meters wide, under which lays the urban center where the Moche elite lived.
	huacadelaluna.org.pe /en/HuacadelaLuna.asp (284 words)

	Historical Places - Welcome to the Official Site for the Promotion of Peru - PromPeru
		The countryside in the province of La Libertad was the land where the ancient Mochica culture chose to build up its most important ceremonial centres: The Huaca del Sol and the Huaca de la Luna.
		The Huaca or Temple of the Sun functioned as an administrative and political centre.
		The Huaca de la Luna or Temple of the Moon is located 500 meters away from the Huaca del Sol.
	www.peru.info /e_ftohistoriaeng.asp?pdr=1169&jrq=4.1.17&ic=2&ids=3896 (262 words)

	O & A Montreal: Moche of Peruat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The burial sites are actually two pyramids known as temples: Huaca de la Luna, or Temple of the Moon, and Huaca del Sol, or Temple of the Sun.
		Huaca de la Luna is the main excavation site where all of the artifacts have been found.
		Huaca del Sol has yet to be unearthed.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2001/12_2001/12202001oamont.htm (664 words)

	Huacas del Sol y de la Luna : experiencing existential tourism
		The Huacas del Sol y de la Luna are located in the Capital of the Moche Culture, and thus, is a necessary stop in a trip going through Trujillo or the Moche Road.
		Before arriving to the Huacas, you go through the Campiña de Moche, the only rural area where inhabitants still devote themselves to agriculture, stock breeding, handicrafts, and the typical gastronomy of this place, despite Trujillo's modernity.
		The Huaca del Sol has been working as a political center, and the Huaca de la Luna as a ceremony center.
	www.infotravelperu.com /english/article.php3?idarticle=18 (769 words)

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