Trujillo, Peru and others. The Chimu culture built its primary settlement at what is known as Chan Chan, which was the capital, having an estimated 100,000 people at its peak. It is the largest pre-Columbian city built of adobe and has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its remains are northwest of the current city center. The present Spanish–Peruvian city of Trujillo was founded in an ancestral territory populated by ancient indigenous civilizations. The Spanish founded new cities expressing their culture in what they called the "Viceroyalty of Peru". The Moche civilization flourished in northern Peru with its Huacas del Sol
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