Tributary network · approximate900 CE – 1470 · 570 years

Chimú Empire

Overview

Chimor was the political grouping of the Chimú culture. The culture arose about 900 CE, succeeding the Moche culture, and was later conquered by the Inca emperor Topa Inca Yupanqui around 1470, fifty years before the arrival of the Spanish in the region. Chimor was the largest kingdom in the Late Intermediate Period, encompassing 1,000 kilometres of modern-day Peruvian coastline.

Wikipedia: Chimor·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

The center is well-attested, but the line is a tribute-relationship periphery rather than a surveyed frontier.

  • SOURCECliopatria / Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0)
  • DETAILCliopatria / Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0) — Chimor peak extent
  • SNAPSHOT1450
  • POLITY TYPEtributary

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 900 CE and fits the map to these borders.

-81.5°,-12.0° → -76.9°,-3.1°WARS-ATLAS / EMPIRE / AMERICAS-CHIMU-NORTH-COAST

Cite as: Chimú Empire (900 CE – 1470). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-chimu-north-coast · Sources & methodology