State · 850 – 1470

Chimor

A state of 850 – 1470 — 620 years in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Wari. It was replaced by Inca Empire. Its own article says it was conquered by Sican culture.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 620 years; 850 – 1470
Most ground: 98,000 km²; in 1375

Map: Chimor in 1375, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Chimor in 1375, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 98,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Chimor in 911, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Chimor in 1375, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Wari · replaces

After it

Inca Empire · replaced by · 1438 – 1572

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by Sican culture. Read from the article's section “History - Downfall” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The state governed such social classes until the empire of the Sican culture conquered the kingdom of Lambayeque, Peru.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

2,700 km² in 925, 98,000 km² in 1470; at its largest 98,000 km² in 1375. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood620 years
stood longer than 91% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held98,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 45% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 788 – 1532, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1375, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q581741 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.