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LANCONÉS, Peru – Poechos reservoir is only capable to contain 42% of its original capability. Chira-Piura Special Project (PECHP as in Spanish)’s director eugenio Tadeo Ramos revealed that the sediments raise 520 million cubic meters. A little lower than the half of the whole matter erupted by the broken out volcano at La Palma Island (Spain) in September 2021.   The reservoir, built since 1972 and starting operations four years later, was conceived to contain until 880 million cubic meters, with an option to enlarge until 1 billion cubic meters, of water. Its purpose was irrigating Chira and Piura Valleys, that form the most lowlands of Piura Department – its impact area includes five of its eight provinces.   Poechos is the largest artificial lake in Peru, that has full by sediment in almost half-a-century of operations due to deforestation at Catamayo Basin (Ecuador) and the massive water overloads caused by heavy rains during El Niño events in 1983 and 1998. ...

PIURA CITY, Peru – Almost one month after the 5 th National Economic Census (V CENEC as in Spanish) started, Peru’s National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI as in Spanish) reported 6997 stores have been visited in Piura Department . From this total, 5182 have been fully registered, they are mainly in Piura Metropolitan Area .   INEI Piura department’s director Martin Herrera Boyer pointed out the total of visited stores has not been registered yet because their owners were absent: “During those almost four weeks, the team of enumerators got to almost 7000 stores, but there are… 1685 that couldn’t be registered up to this moment because… they were closed or there was a denial to ask the request,” he sustained.   V CENEC’s regional coordinator Elmer León Alvines also said that starting Monday, May 16 th , formal and informal businesses of Sullana, Paita, Talara, Morropon, Ayabaca, and Huancabamba are visited. So, 41 districts are added to count: Since V ...

It plans to cover about 2 million stores nationwide, 100,000 across Piura Department.   Peru’s National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI, as it’s initials in Spanish) launched the 2022 5 th National economic Census (V CENEC, asits initials in Spanish) wwhich was begun on April 18 th across the country purposed to update basic statistical/economic information of companies producing goods and services, that allow to generate economic indicators at geographic, sector, and thematic level.   INEI in Piura Department’s director Martin Herrera Boyer pointed out that the economic census will allow to know the business network nationwide and inside the nation, as well as to identify the economic characteristics of productive units meanwhile knowing much accurate the impact the Covid-19 pandemic comes leaving in the business structure of Peru.   The census might set up economic information to change the basis-year, to estimate the fall of job levels, th...

LANCONÉS, Peru – The electric service has carried progress to the rural population, it allowed to generate development by activating little and medium businesses. But it also stops the whole growth when there are blackouts. That’s caused because the actual transmission line can not generate the enough power to satisfy the demand of this people.   That’s why ElectroNorOeste S.A. (Enosa) is setting up a new 60-kilovolt line –60,000 volts—that will benefit mostly to the rural population of Lanconés Dry Forest, the Valleys of Chipillico and Quiroz. The beneficiaries live in the Districts of Lanconés ( Sullana Province ), Tambograndé, Las Lomas ( Piura Province ), Paimas, Suyo, Sapillica, Lagunas, Sícchz, Jililí, Montero, and Ayabaca ( Ayabaca Province ).   It includes 54 miles of transmission line, more than 200 metallic structures, and Associate substations. Currently, those districts have power through a 22.9-kilovolt line fed from a substation near Poechos Reservoir , t...

  [Exclusive] The contact with Nature  and a millenial history are their best assets, but it's necessary to run the extra mile for making them irresistible. By César Correa Castillo . All photographs from FACTORTIERRA Archives.   TAMBOGRANDE, Peru - After finishing my studies of Touristic and Hotel Management at César Vallejo University in Piura, I felt attracted by the work that FACTORTIERRA has done in  Malingas Community in 2009, especially due to the international impact it got. YOUTUBE : Watch the spot that FACTORTIERRA.NET produced to attract the interest on Malingas resources . Because of that investigation, that crew deserved  the 2011 Environmental Citizenship National Award , the first one ever gotten by any initiative in Piura Department. Even in 2013, this was the location used by History Latin America network  to reenact a story that the website published in 2008 and what was seen by 40 million homes across the continent. Upon...

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By Diego Mauricio (Regional Network of Water and Environment)       PIURA CITY, Peru – The Ministry of environment recognized in 2008the economic importance of the Andean páramos for the population depending on this ecosystem. That entitty’s former Natural Resources manager Walter Huamani affirmed that “we recognize that [the páramos] historically do have an economic value and the communities located at the highlands ever used it and know of that value.”   “If they don’t know of bank accounts, that is another issue, but they know [the páramos] have a value, and they use it and they live from it. The ecosystems feed the people, whether native people or surrounding people,” he said.   According to the Chira-Piura Hydrographic Basin Autonomous Authority, there was in 2018 a total of 929,247inhabitants through the basin, that represented 56% of the Piura department’s population. As well, Piura highlands s had a population of 55,889 heads of cow cattle wwhich ...