Virú culture

Virú culture occupied successively the vales of Chicama and Virú, in Region Libertad, in Peru. Their main office was "Castillo de Tomabal", in the margin left side of the river Virú.

It had validity partly of the epoch preincaica up to IIIrd century d. C.. This culture ended up by being evicted by Mochicas from the Cuenca of the Chicama about the Ist century A.D. and 200 years later they were evicted from the banks of the Virú.

The culture virú did big buildings of mud. The most notable and gigantic they are: "San Juan, Napo, Sarraque and Tomabal". Undoubtedly they had a classist society. The Virú were the initiators of the huacos – portraits, who years later would perfect the mochicas.

Like in all the cultures of these times, the agriculture is the base of the economy. In the vales of Chicama, Moche and Virú executed works of irrigation to extend the agricultural border. Principal I cultivate they were: corn, beans, lagenarias, yucca, cotton, green pepper, lúcumo and other fruit trees. They were complementing the previous thing with a fishing industry, which dried products were exchanging them with other Andean peoples.

The cultures of transition of the formative late one developed between the 500 B.C. and the 300 A.D., approximately. They developed for next to 800 years.

The culture also had a rich history of art. They are famous for using a negative painting technique. We understand the expression 'negative painting' to indicate the denial of paint; and this decoration, of a two color type, as a product corresponding to a moment of further cultural development, in this particular instance, immediately preceding the Apogee Period of highest cultural development. Many pieces can be seen in the Larco Museum Collection in Lima, Peru.