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Why should you spend your next vacations in Piura Department, Peru? First of all, the diversity of landscapes from the sea level to the snowless Andes that will give you different choices, from adventure to extreme passing through experiential. And maybe the most interesting insight is the constant weather – temperatures as well as feelings use to be nice along the year, especially since April to December… unless you want to enjoy our summer since January to March.

 

However, before to book your trip, or if you are up to take the plane (or the bus), it’s necessary you learn what the weather conditions are for your chosen destination. That’s why in FACTORTIERRA, we have checked out not only the most popular touristic places but others we have highlighted with our tourism tag on this blog, or our #visitPiura hashtag on Twitter. So here we have them classified by eco-regions and access gateways.

 

 

Talara Beaches Circuit

By road, you can enter from Guayaquil City, Ecuador, to Talara City, Peru after 7.5 hours driving by your own or on a bus. It’s 449 km or 279 miles length. Get your passport ready to present in the borderline control at Aguas Verdes, just coming in Peru. By plane, there are flights from Lima City (LIM) to Talara City (TIL). It’s about 1 hour 45 mins flying – 945 km or 587 miles. If your body can resist 17 hours by bus from Peru’s capital city, take the choice.

 

There is other option is taking a flight from Lima City to Piura City (PIU), 1 h 30 mins by air, 846 km or 527 miles. By bus, it’s about 14 hours. Once arriving into Piura City, you can take a bus to Talara City or any of its nearby beaches.

 

From Talara City, the furthest beach is Máncora, about 3 hours by bus or car. It’s where Piura Department ends and Tumbés Department begins. Precisely, in Punta Sal, Tumbés, there is a landing lane having flights from Lima City, even. Be aware the only way to get to this circuit by air is connecting from Lima. As much as we know, current connections from abroad require special official previous authorization. Here we have the current and future weather conditions going from north to south:

• Máncora: Las Pocitas, Vichayito, surfing.
• Los Órganos: Punta Veleros, el Ñuro (swimming with turtles).
• El Alto: Cabo Blanco (Hemingway & black marlins).
• Negritos: Punta Balcones (most occidental Sout American extreme), Punta Pariñas, salty field, petrified forest.
• Talara City: Punta Arenas.
• Lobitos.

 

 

Paita and Sechura Beaches Circuits

They are not much popular for international tourists but if you want to run away the crowds, especially on weekdays or low season, they are an excellent option, and as you go southern, you’ll find more empty, typical, and quite chances.

 

The best connection by plane and road is Piura City, then take a bus or a car to Paita City or Sechura City according to your comfort. The trip time to both destinations is around 45 minutes (50 km or 38 miles in both cases). Unfortunately, there are no landing lanes around. Going from north to south, here we have your current and future weather conditions:

• Paita Bay & Shores: Colán (La Esmeralda, 1st Catholic temple built by Spaniards), Yasila, Cangrejos, La Islilla (includes Foca Island).
• Vice: La Tortuga, San Pedro, san Pablo.
• Sechura Bay: Parachiqué, Matacaballo, Chuyillaché, Virrilá Stuary (former Piura River lead), Illescas Reservation Area (condor nests).
• Rebentazón: Southern access to Illescas Reservation Zone.

 

 

Metropolitan Circuits

The largest cities of Piura Department are surrounded by touristic spots. In case of Piura City, we have archeology and pottery commerce. In ccase of Sullana City, we have natural landsccapes as well as agricultural and historic spots. In both cases, great places to eat and drink, typical by the way (be alert of your calories).

 

As we said above, Piura Metropolitan Area has an airport, so the circuits can take just minutes or a couple of hours as much as long you decide. Sullana Metropolitan Area is just 40 minutes by highway to the north, 40 km or 30 miles by bus or car. Here we have your current and future weather conditions for both and their surrounding towns:

• Piura City: Main Square (Plaza de Armas), Grau Museum, Vicús Municipal Museum & Gallery.
• Catacaos: San Juan Bautista Temple, Comercio Street (handicraft, pottery, and jewelry), Narihualá Fortress.
• Sechura City: San Martín de Tours Temple, Chusís Museum, Médano Blanco (sandboarding), Sechura Desert, La Niña Lake (only during El Niño events).
• Sullana City: Middle Chira Valley (banana croplands), Luis Cruz Museum, Bolognesi Square and Turicarami Lane, landscaping, archaeological rests, El Angolo Hunting.
• Lanconés: Poechos Reservoir, Lanconés Dry Forest, Cerros de Amotapé National Park.
• Sojo: Checa Estate House, Tangarará Square and Museum (1^st settlement of Piura City).

 

 

Midland Valleys Circuits

The most important and famous crops of Piura Department are mangos and limes, but you also can have avocados, passion fruits, and exporting cacao. They are harvested in San Lorenzo valley (Las Lomas and Tambograndé Districts) and an agricultural strip occupying  Chulucanas and La Matanza Districts.

 

While San Lorenzo is ideal for experiential tourism in croplands (as well as some adventure tourism if you love biking, hiking, camping, or trekking), Chulucanas is perfect for purchasing clay pottery. anything extreme? La Matanza has a spot for UFO sightings.

 

All those places are connected from Piura City. Times vary from a couple of hours to an entire morning or afternoon… or a whole day if you want. Sullana City is also available for those connections, especially San Lorenzo Valley. Ask us for exact times before taking a route. Here we have your current and future weather conditions going from north to south:

• Las Lomas Area: San Lorenzo Reservoir & Valley (with a possible connection to Sapillica: circuit of petroglyphs).
• Tambograndé Area: Santa Cruz Hill (Christ Statue, view of frustrated mining open-pit), Santa María de Locuto algarrobina factory, Malingas croplands & petroglyphs, Las Palmeras de Yaranche’s Coppers.
• Chulucanas Area: Yapatera, La encantada (pottery stores), Vicús Mount, Palo Blanco cacao lands & forest (with a connection to Frías District).
• La Matanza Area: Pilán Mount and Piura La Vieja (2nd settlement of Piura City).

 

 

The Señor Cautivo Circuit (Ayabaca Province)

Going up to the Andes, one of the most popular routes, especially for Catholic pilgrims, is what takes Ayabaca City as a destination. That place at 2715 meters or 8907 feet altitude, is the home of Señor Cautivo, a bicentennial wood sculpture performing a captive Jesus Christ with tied hands which devotion gathers thousands of people every October. But Ayabaca is aalso a stop to visit Samanga Petroglyphs and Aypaté Inca citadel. Don’t miss the mountain landscape everywhere – steep, green, light blue, cloudy, deep… get to there for experiencing it!

 

The connection can be made from Piura or Sullana cities. It’s about 5 hours by car or bus, 213 km or 132 miles (connections from Chulucanas, Tambograndé, and Las Lomas are also possible and closer). The Andean portrait deserves to spend such a time on your seat. Ask our FACTORTIERRA advisor about tripping by cycle or bike. Here we have your current and future weather conditions:

• Ayabaca area: Options mentioned in the last two previous paragraphs plus Cuyas Protected Cloud Forest.
• Montero Area (if you rent a car or a pick-up): organic coffee and sugarcane, cloud forest.

 

 

Upper Piura Circuit (Alto Piura)

While Piura River comes down to lowlands, you take up in opposite sense. An U-shape valley where cacao, sugarcane, and coffee are cropped, and that’s the beginning. The water plays a role aside with creeks, springs and little cascades. Did we mention the dry and cloud forest? Or what about the Meseta Andina, a plateau near to 3500-meter or 11,500-feet Andean summits? Interested in learning a new dance? Try the tondero in Morropón City, considered as its homeland.  

 

The connections are mostly possible from Piura City, and the full length (taking Canchaqué Town as a final destination( is  146 km or 91 miles, almost 3 hours by car or bus. Distances and times can vary depending on the destination you choose, so ask our FACTORTIERRA advisor for right information, especially if there are heavy rainy conditions that can cut the roads. Here we have your current and future weather conditions going from west to east:

• Morropón Area. Caracucho Cascades, Buenos Aires cacao croplands, Piura River, tondero schools and contest (from here you can take the detour to Chalaco and Santo Domingo highlands & forests, and even go to Pacaipampa where Quiroz Valley starts).
• Canchaqué Area: coffee croplands, Palambla, San Miguel de el Faiqué, adventure sports and outdoors activities, landscaping, petroglyphs.
• Huarmaca Area. Serrán-Salitral Protected Dry Forest, the Pacific/Atlantic Catholic temple.

 

 

Huancabamba Balley Circuit

When you get to Canchaqué Town, and impressing mount wall is goin to wonder you. Up and behind it, there is the only valley in Piura which water doesn’t lead to Pacific Ocean but Atlantic Ocean through Amazon River – Huancabamba Valley.

 

The diversity of this place comes from the lakes at the páramos, in the highlands of El Carmen de la Frontera District, to many options from taking a walk through the city and the countryside, to hike the almost vertical slopes keeping Huancabamba River in the bottom. By the way, the lakes are spots of magical medicine, but a big outdoor scientific laboratory of medicinal plants,

 

The only wide way departs from Piura City, 215 km or 1334 miles, a little more than 5 h 30 min by car or bus. It used to have flights but the landing lane is a bourgh called El Aterrizaje today. If you are in Canchaqué, you’re 105 km or 65 miles uphill then downhill, almost 4 hours by bus or car. The access is complicated when it rains heavy. Otherwise, here we have your current and future weather conditions going from north to south:

• Sapalaché Area (El Carmen de la Frontera District): Huaringas Lakes Complex, magical medicine rituals (especially in Negra and Shimbé Lakes), cheese and liquor factories, landscaping, trekking.
• Huancabamba Area: Cascapampa Coppers & Mitupampa’s Jaguars Temple, Güitiligún and Colorado Mounts, countryside of Segunda y Cajas and Quispampa Communities.
• Sóndor Area: Citam or spring and lagoon, Infiernilo Canyon (crossing to Sondorillo, you can take an alternative way to Huarmaca and Canchaqué).

 

We have to stress this information is extraofficial. For official updated data, go to Senamhi website (in Spanish). Now, enjoy your trip and let us know your impressions (see how right below.

 

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