Chiclín is a town in Northern
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
in
Chicama District
Chicama District is one of the Districts of Peru, districts of the Ascope Province in the La Libertad Region in Peru. Municipalidad Distrital de ChicamaMunicipalidad Distrital de Chicama Retrieved November 9, 2007.
Localities
*Chiclín
*Sausal, ...
of
Ascope Province in the region
La Libertad. This town is located next to the
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway is a vast network of roads that stretches about 30,000 kilometers (about 19,000 miles) from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in the northernmost part of North America to Ushuaia, Argentina, at the southern tip of South America. I ...
some 35 km north of
Trujillo in the agricultural
Chicama Valley
Chicama Valley is an area located at north of the Valley of Moche in La Libertad Region, northern Peru, it has agricultural resources where one of the main products is cane of sugar; this valley has been formed on both sides of the Chicama Rive ...
.
History
At the start of the 20th century,
Rafael Larco Herrera wanted to transform hacienda Chiclín into a
Utopia
A utopia ( ) typically describes an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book ''Utopia (book), Utopia'', which describes a fictiona ...
. The project was challenged by
Alfonso Ugarte de Chiclín Football Club.
See also
*
Ascope Province
*
Chavimochic
Chavimochic Special Project is an irrigation system that extends throughout much of the coast of the La Libertad Region, on the north coast of Peru. It was started in the 1960s by the National Development Institute (INADE), a Peruvian central ...
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Virú Valley
The Viru Valley is located in La Libertad Region on the north west coast of Peru.
The Viru Valley Project
In 1946 the first attempt to study settlement patterns in the Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a ...
*
Virú
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Moche valley
External links
Location of Chiclín by Wikimapia
References
Populated places in the Department of La Libertad
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