Architecture The Huaca de la Luna is a truncated pyramid built in a landscape framed by the Cerro Blanco and the river Moche. It is made up of millions of adobes (mud bricks). Its finalheight reaches from 210 to 290 meters (depending on the area where the measurements are taken) and is the result of a long process of remodeling and enlargement, producing the superposition of at least six buildings. This means that the areas of the older buildings were successively filled by the same Mochica, using adobe blocks weaved to make higher and wider buildings over them. The rebuilding work was also used to prepare some funerary chambers for members of the elite inside the fillings. The filling of the buildings was done using advanced building techniques, which made the structures elastic: they could balance and not break down during seismic movements. According to the researchers’ estimates, the Huaca de la Luna walls keep some 10,000 m2. of polychrome surfaces, but only 1,500 m2 are currently visible for tourists. Many centuries after the fall of the Mochica kingdom, members of the Chimú elite (people who descended from the Moche and who developed in the northern coast of Perú from the IX to the XV century a.C.) settled on some areas of the Huaca de la Luna, and built funerary chambers there.