Chan Chan, Peru · Travel Poster

Not just a view, the heritage behind it. Ella writes about the place, its hidden history, and the details that never make it into the guidebooks, all printed on the poster.

Chan Chan, capital of the Chimú civilisation, is the largest adobe city ever built and the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas, once covering twenty square kilometres and housing up to a hundred thousand people using nothing but sun-dried mud brick. It rose to power in one of the driest deserts on earth, engineering canals and aqueducts to solve a chronic lack of water. The irony is a cruel one. Today, the very thing Chan Chan never had enough of is what's slowly destroying it, torrential rains, a side effect of a changing climate, are washing the ancient city away one storm at a time.

An original illustration, available in colour or black and white, created for the Ella's Adventures travel poster series.

No frame included.

Please note that, to protect the original artwork from copyright infringement, the images shown on this website are low resolution. The poster you receive is printed in high resolution, with all the detail and clarity of the original.