Virú

or Vi·ru

[ vee-roo ]

noun

1. 1. a province in the La Libertad region of Peru, on the country’s northern coast. 1,243 square miles (3,219 square kilometers).
   2. the capital city of this province.
2. Virú Valley, a valley in Virú province in the La Libertad region of northwestern Peru: site of the modern city of Virú and of the Virú culture.
3. Also called Gallinazo. a pre-Inca culture that established itself in a number of settlements in the Virú Valley and nearby valleys of northwestern Peru, flourishing sometime between 200 b.c. and about a.d. 600 and producing large pyramid mounds, textiles, and a style of pottery characterized by negative resist painting (often used attributively).

Example Sentences

As news of the arrest spread, supporters of Mr Camacho descended on Santa Cruz's Viru Viru airport, in an apparent attempt to prevent him from being taken to another location.

From BBC

Rising immunity in that group could limit the viru’s ability to spread, says Jacco Wallinga, chief epidemic modeler at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment.

From Science Magazine

A Boeing 747-400 Global SuperTanker aircraft carrying nearly 20,000 gallons of retardant, a substance used to stop fires, left the Sacramento-McClellan Airport Thursday night and arrived in Bolivia’s Viru Viru International Airport early Friday morning.

From Fox News

The little-known Virú culture, named for the Virú Valley which runs from the Andes mountains to the Pacific, thrived in the area between A.D.

From National Geographic

A similar practice was discovered in the early 2000s with a much smaller set of Virú burials excavated at El Castillo Santa, south of Trujillo, Prieto adds.

From National Geographic