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    By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Peru – W hat happened in actual Piura Department before 1532 AD is a big unknown. What we know is explained in key of legend. The rest has consisted in a long forensic work: tracking, digging, extracting, comparing, assuming the gotten is just a piece of a huge puzzle which blanks continue to be as remarkable as the parts seeming to shape.   It’s the case of Tallans , as we know, people who evolved in parallel to Incas,which deadline seems to have ended when the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro entered actual Chira Valley in 1532 through actual Lanconés District , after starting his march from actual Tumbés Department . We know that because there are written records from that point up after – the problem is from that point down before.   Skillful farmers and fishers There is some consensus in historians and archaeologists the Tallans were not one only people but a kind of association of peopl...

  Por Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Piura – Lo que pasó en el actual departamento de Piura antes de 1532 DC es una gran incógnita. Lo que sabemos se explica a tono de leyenda; el resto ha consistido en un largo trabajo forense: rastrear, excavar, extraer, comparar y asumir que lo obtenido son apenas piezas de un enorme rompecabezas , en el que los espacios en blanco siguen siendo tan notables como las partes que parecen tomar forma.   Es el caso de los tallanes , un pueblo que, sabemos, evolucionó en paralelo a los incas y cuya historia parece haber finado cuando el conquistador español Francisco Pizarro entró al valle del Chira por el actual distrito de Lancones, luego de iniciar su marcha desde el actual departamento de Tumbes . Eso lo conocemos porque desde ese punto hacia adelante hay registros escritos; de allí hacia atrás está el problema.   Hábiles agricultores y pescadores Hay cierto consenso en historiadores y arqueólogos de que...

It doesn’t only rain, the soil also shakes – what physical place gathers that information for taking better decisions?     By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Peru – The quake of October 5 th , 2022 in Miguel Checa District must face us a reality we maybe have dismissed or ignored: Piura is a seismic zone. It’s the second time in 15 months that a same hypocenter actives violently, the same magnitude (6.1), the same intensity (VI). Since 2022-mid, Peru’s Geophysical Institute(IGP, as its initials in Spanish)   is already on the field, between the towns of Sojo (Miguel Checa District) and Mallarés ( Marcavelica District ), investigating how it’s,how this piece of Earth crust behaves. The information will be useful for planning the urban growth, like Sullana Metropolitan Area, that trends to expand toward the west. Upon IGP historic facts, there are other hypocenters those regularly feature seismic activity: Talara: In a course starting s...