Even Naylamp failed on it

New deluges slamming the ancient Sícan land.

 

By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo | Facebook | Twitter |YouTube |Instagram

 

 

PÍTIPO, Peru – It was a long drought period, people was desperate. Their governors ran to magic to ease the arrival of rains but nothing seemed to work. The angry people conspired, set the main city on fire. Time later, the rain came on… rather, days of true deluges. The place flooded, the people had to move to another safe zone.

 

It was 1100 AD. At Pomac Forest, people saw their agriculture dying because of the water lack. It hadn’t rained enough during 30 years, and rites of priests and governors were useless. It’s supposed that ignited the riot.

 

Archeologist Izumi Shimada (Kyoto, Japan, 1948) has researched the place since 1978. It’s known as Batán Grandé today, maybe because of many boulders to exist for grinding minerals due to the old Lambayequé people was expert in goldsmith.

 

Also known as Sicán, they flourished between 700 AD and 1300 AD, possibly after the fall of Muchick civilization, that flourished at once between 100 AD to 700 AD.

 

The Lambayequés settled down at Batán Grandé area, next to La Leché River, almost amid actual Lambayequé Department (which name remembers them), while Muchiks (also Moché or Mochíca). Did it next to Moché River, central shore of actual La Libertad Department, just to the south of actual Lambayequé.

 

The archeologists suppose an extraordinary rainy event extinguished the Muchiks in 700 AD. Some moved forward by the sea to the north (taking advantage of Humboldt’s Current?), then landed at Lambayequé Shores.

 

The Náylamp’s Myth explains that migration, and apparently another rainy period in 1100 AD caused an overflow in La Leché River, flooded Bátan Grandé, forced the people to migrate 6 miles to Tucumé where they tried to reset up until they were absorbed by Chimú Empire, that settled down… at Moché Valley, actual La Libertad Department.

Nine centuries

It was suggested the short Lambayequés exodus was caused by a major El Niño event. The overflowed water covered actual Districts Íllimo, Jayanca, Pacora, and Pitipo (571.8 sq mi by joining all them).

 

Nine centuries later, the same districts plus Morropé  (407 sq mi) flooded again because of a La Leché River overload after a period of heavy rains registered between February and March 2023. According to the authorities, Íllimo District (9.4 sq mi) looked like to be the most affected – houses and plantations left covered by the water.

 

The rainy period triggered after La Niña Phenomenon kept the Pacific Ocean water in front of Peruvian Northern colder than its usual low level, during three years – 64ºF, according to Peru’s Institute of Sea, even in summer when it can raise until 75ºF as it happened in January 2023, according to Peru’s National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology.

 

As it cools the sea, La Niña inhibits evaporation, rain clouds don’t form, then the drought across the full Peruvian Coast is the key result in summer, and a more intense cold than the usual in winter.

 

La Niña happens when trade winds, blowing from east to west in south America, cool the sea as much as they modify the entire weather worldwide.

 

When trade winds weaken, the sea warms up and the whole phenomenon can go reverse to the other edge – el Niño. When it rained in excess, it leaves to rain for years and viceversa. The critical point is when the sea surface warms up over 79ºF.

 

Was it a long La Niña event  what caused the drought that angered the Lambayequeés as well, and when they thought they have revenged  from the governors, a cathastrophic-level El Niño  event came on? What we learned currently is both are cyclic, and that, according to paleontological records, they could have happened 10,000 years ago.

 

 

steepless

although the Lambayequés settled down in a relatively safe valley, about 31 miles inland Pacific Ocean, the land doesn’t have major elevations. There are some nearby mounts, but they seemed not to be occupied by these locals.  The countryside is 164 feet above sea level. The place where actual Pítipo City is settled down is 278 feet altitude. Downstream Batán Grandé, in actual Íllimo District, the elevation goes from 158 to 167 feet above sea level.

 

A simple Flow mechanic drill will allow us to deduct that if the terrain doesn’t have a major steep, the water spreads, doesn’t flow at all, then floods. That could happen in 1100. That could happen in 2023.

 

The Lambayequés expanded its political-military domain as much as the north like Chira Valley, Piura Department, and as much as the south like Chicama Valley, La Libertad Department, what gives us 254 miles lenghth. Its cultural influence seems to have spread as much as the north like Guayaquil Gulf, Ecuador, and Ica Department at the south, what gives us 1104 miles length.

 

During the first quarter of March 2023, rains pulled by Yaku Cyclone caused deluges from Manabí Province, Ecuador, stressing over Peruvian Northern Coast, and smaller-but-significant, between Departments Ancash and Íca – that gives us 1214 miles length.

 

The science supporting the risk management teaches us is a disaster happened at a place in the past, it will happen again at the same place sometime in the future, unless everything gets ready  for the moment when the event happens again, the damage level to be low or manageable. How many lessons were learned in nine centuries?

 

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