Chavin may refer to:
Places
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Chavín de Huantar, an archaeological site in Peru built by the Chavín culture
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Chavín District, Chincha, Peru
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Chavín de Huantar District, Huari, Peru
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Chavín de Pariarca District
Chavín de Pariarca District is one of eleven districts of the province Huamalíes in Peru.
Ethnic groups
The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the popula ...
, Huamalies, Peru
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Chavin, Indre, a commune of the Indre ''département'' in France
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Chavin, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
* The Chavín parish belonging to the municipality of
Viveiro
Viveiro (; ) is a town and municipality in the province of Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the comarca of A Mariña Occidental. It borders on the Cantabrian Sea, to the west of Xove and to the east of O V ...
, Spain
Other uses
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Chinga Chavin, U.S. musician
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Chavín culture
The Chavín culture was a Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian civilization, developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru around 900 BCE, ending around 250 BCE. It extended its influence to other civilizations along the Peruvian coast.Burger, R ...
, an early culture of the Andean region, pre-dating the Moche culture in Peru
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Operation Chavín de Huántar, a Peruvian military operation that ended the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis
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Rhinella chavin (''R. chavin''), a species of toad
See also
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