Trujillo, Peru

Trujillo, in northwastren Peru, is the caipital o the La Libertad Region, and the third lairgest ceety in Peru. The urban aurie haes 811,979 inhabitants an is an economic hub in northren Peru.^[1] The ceety is locatit at the banks o the Moche River, near its mouth at the Paceefic Ocean, in a valley o great cultural hegemony.

While it mey be conceived as a single ceety, Trujillo is no a single admeenistrative unit; rather, it is the core or center o a major metropolitan aurie that covers an aurie o 110,000 ha,^[2] an consists o 9 municipalities in the province, o which 5 are completely metropolitan auries, while the remainin 4 are partially. The metropolitan aurie haes a population o mair than 804,000 inhabitants, the third maist populous o Peru.