LA LIBERTAD REGION OF PERU.

La Libertad is a Region in NorthWestern Peru. Formerly it was known as the Department of La Libertad. It is bordered by Lambayeque, Cajamarca and Amazonas Regions on the North, the San Martin Region on the East, The Ancash and Huanuco Regions on the South and the Pacific Ocean on the West. Its capital is Trujillo, which is the nation's 3rd biggest city.
The Region's main port is Salaverry. It is located 14 km/8.7 mi SouthEast Trujillo. The port is able to accomodate large ships including tourist ships as those of the Carnival Company.
During the Viceroyalty of Peru, La Libertad Region, together with the present-day regions of Lamba-Yeque, Piura and Tumbes Regions in Peru, and Guayaquil and El Oro Province in Ecuador, were all within the jurisdiction of the Intendencia of Trujillo. This were included in the domain of the city of Trujillo; together they comprised the Departamento of Trujillo of the Viceroyalty.
The Viceroyalty of Peru was a European administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained most of the European-ruled South America, governed from the capital of Lima. The creation of New Granada and the Silver River (Rio de La Plata) Viceroyalties at the expense of Peru Viceroyalty's territory reduced the importance of Lima and shifted the lucrative Andean Trade to Buenos Aires, while the over extraction of the precious metals in the mines belonging to The Incas started to fall together with the production of textiles since they killed by millions the Andean population in charge of the production because of the extreme over explotation of it. It accelerated the progressive decay of the Viceroyalty of Peru. At the beginning of the 19th century, much of the Viceroyalty faded, when they were challenged by national independence movements that led to the formation of the modern-day countries of Peru, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago, territories that at one point or another had constituted the Viceroyalty of Peru.
The Libertad is the only Peruvian Region that includes all three natural regions of the nation: Coast, High Lands (Sierra), and Rainforest (Selva).
Trujillo, the capital, has a strategic location, near where the Andes come closest to the Coast. Seen from Trujillo, the Andes appears as a row of low-elevation hills. The Andean Plateau increases altitude sharply to the East, in the provinces of Otuzco and Santiago de Chuco. These two provinces comprise the Pacific hydrographic watershed, which give rise to the Moche and Viru Rivers, to the South, and Chicama River to the North. Pacasmayo Province, one of the 12 provinces of the Region, located more to the North, is along the Coast. To the East, Sanchez Carrion Province (Huamachuco is its capital) waterways drain into the Amazon River and thus belong to the Atlantic watershed. About 30 mi away of Huamachuco is MarcaHuamachuco, a prehistoric religious and political center of a culture that thrived 350 CE to 1100 CE.