The great desert-coast empire of adobe, ruled from the vast mud-brick city of Chan Chan and second only to the Inca among Andean states.
At its height it held ~1,000 km of the Peruvian coast; around 1470 Túpac Inca Yupanqui cut its mountain canals, forced its surrender and carried the lord Minchançaman to Cusco — absorbing Chimor and its master metalsmiths into the Inca state.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Kingdom of Chimor (Chimú) — the shape you scrub through changes in 850 · 1300 · 1470.
Archaeological study of Chan Chan, the vast adobe capital of the Chimú/Chimor state.
Surveys the Andean coastal cultures, including Chimor, that preceded and were absorbed by the Inca (broad regional context).