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Canchaqué suffered again from a slide of mud and rocks during rains in 2023.     All the footage: © Juan Francisco Facundo Silva .   CANCHAQUÉ, Peru— “Look how it left!,” exclaims Juan Francisco Facundo Silva, a computation technician and producer of a streaming music-TV show, as he saw the debris and the print of a slide of mud and rocks happened just before midnight, March 15 th , 2023.   Juan, artistically known as Facundo, arrived three days later to see how his remaining family was doing in Canchaqué Town , 91 miles by road from Piura City – he couldn’t hold on the sadness despite he tried to manage it by recording with his mobile the clips we share here.   Collating a preliminary report by Peru’s National Institute of Civil Defense and testimonies of eyewitnesses gathered by FACTORTIERRA, on March 15 th , 2023, 23:15 PET (0415 UTC, March 16 th , 2023), Púsmalca Valley, where Canchaqué Town is located, had “intense rains.”   Some...

Canchaque volvió a sufrir un deslizamiento de lodo y piedras durante las lluvias de 2023.     Todos los videos: © Juan Francisco Facundo Silva . ADVERTENCIA PARENTAL: el lenguaje usado en alguno de ellos podría ser inapropiado para su uso educativo sin supervisión.   CANCHAQUE, Piura – “¿Mira cómo quedó!”, exclama Juan Francisco Facundo Silva, un técnico en computación y productor de un programa de televisión musical por streaming, al ver los escombros y la huella de un deslizamiento de lodo y piedras ocurrido ya entrada la noche del 15 de marzo de 2023.   Juan, artísticamente conocido como Facundo, llegó tres días después a ver cómo estaba la familia que le queda en el pueblo de Canchaque, 146 km por carretera desde la ciudad de Piura , y le fue imposible contener la tristeza por más que quiso manejarla grabando con su celular los clips que compartimos aquí.   Cotejando un reporte preliminar del Instituto Nacional de Defensa Civil y relatos d...

Those phenomena are usual at Southern Pacific but not at its eastern side.     Yaku Cyclone looked like so on March 7 th , 2023. (Footage provided by Senamhi)   Peru’s National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology  (Senamhi as in Spanish) reported on March 7 th , 2023, that Yaku (“water” in Quechuan) Cyclone had formed in front of the coast of Departments Tumbés, Piura, and Lambayequé. Read the report in Spanish .   It added it was about a non-organized system (set of meteorological phenomena) with tropical features that influenced in heavy to extreme rains fallen over these departments in Peruvian Northern, beginning March 2023. It forecast it was going to carry precipitations toward Departments La Libertad, Ancash, and Lima, located just to the south of the three first ones, for March-ending 2023.   The agency, that tracked Yaku since February-ending 2023, pointed out this meteorological phenomenon is not usual in front of Peruvian shor...

Estos fenómenos son usuales en el Pacífico Sur, pero no del lado oriental.     Así lucía Yaku el 7 de marzo de 2023. (video proporcionado por Senamhi)   El Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (Senamhi) informó el 7 de marzo de 2023, que el ciclón Yaku (“agua” en quechua) se había formado frente a la costa de los departamentos de Tumbes, Piura y Lambayeque. Lee aquí el reporte .   Agregó que se trataba de un sistema (conjunto de fenómenos meteorológicos) no organizado de características tropicales que influyó en las lluvias fuertes a extremas que cayeron en esos departamentos a inicios de marzo de 2023, y pronosticó que iba a llevar precipitaciones hacia los departamentos de La Libertad, Áncash y Lima, situados inmediatamente al sur de los tres primeros, para fines de marzo de 2023.   La agencia, que rastreó a yaku desde fines de febrero de  2023, apuntó que este fenómeno meteorológico no es usual frente a costas peruanas . ...

After three years without precipitations, they came back to smash the same places where a similar episode happened more than a decade ago.     A heavy rain falling over Sapillica Town, Upper Chipillico Valley, Ayabaca Province , on February 21 st , 2023. However, just 0.8 inches of rain fell that day.  (Footage provided by El Tambograndino Noticias )   The most Piura Department, Peru, had moderate to heavy rains between 19 th and 25 th of February, 2023, feeling stronger between 22 nd and 23 rd . It was not a surprising episode. Peru’s National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (Senamhyi, as in Spanish)issued such warnings since the 19 th by tagging orange alertfor coast and highlands of Northern Peru.   Based upon satellite reports consulted by FACTORTIERRA and eyewitnesses on the field, the precipitations smashed mostly on Provinces ayabaca, Huancabamba, and Morropón, the whole crossed by the Andean Range, which had receiving rains interm...