Trujillo, Peru well as the "Capital of Culture of Peru". It has sponsored numerous national and international cultural events, and has a lively arts community. Current festivals include the "National Marinera Festival", the Trujillo Spring Festival and the International Book Festival, which is one of the most important cultural events in the country. Trujillo is close to two major archeological sites of pre-Columbian monuments: Chan Chan, the largest adobe city in the ancient world, designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986; and the temples of the Sun and Moon (the largest adobe pyramid in Peru). The city center contains many
Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles as Taíno was, but to languages of Central America which had more similar syllable structures. Western Cuba is close enough to the Yucatán Peninsula for there to have been crossings by canoe at the time of the Conquest. From Ciguayo we also have a proper name "Quisqueya" "(Kiskeya)", and from Macorix a negative form, "baeza." The Guanahani Taino (Ciboney in the proper sense) word for gold, "nozay", elsewhere spelled "nuçay" (nosai, nusai), may be of Warao origin, as the Warao word for gold is "naséi simo" 'yellow pebble'. However, trade words like 'gold' are readily borrowed. Pre-Arawakan languages of the