Visit Balconés Point!
This is the last place in South America to enjoy a sunset. Photographs by Ethniko Negritos . LA BREA, Peru – The most occidental mainland in South America is in Piura Department . It’s easy to see in a map , but the sensation is other on the field. It’s a great natural landscape system with a view to the enormous Pacific Ocean . If you get to this place, as much as you get to the edge, you’ll be the one among the other people across south America who gets more into the sea… not needing to get into the water, not needing to get out the continent, or going to an island, aboarding a ship either. The point was named Balconés in Spanish because the promontory seems to be a set of shelves or balconies viewing to the sea. Only that in this case, the architect was Nature. Even the full promontory is called La Mesa Mount (Cerro La Mesa), that highlights of the rest of the beach and the own coastal plateau , that is aactually the cont...