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PIURA CITY, Peru – A 26-meter tower has risen at kilometer 5.5 of the Piura–Sullana highway . At first glance, it looks like a giant white dome perched on scaffolding. But this isn’t just infrastructure—it’s a climate sentinel . A newly installed weather radar now watches the skies, scanning for storms , rainfall , and wind patterns in real time.   And what it sees could help us understand not just local weather , but global climate phenomena like El Niño and La Niña .   🛰️ What Can This Radar Actually See? The radar system is a C250P Dual-Polarimetric Doppler Radar , built by Advanced Radar Company in Boulder, Colorado. It operates in the C-band, ideal for detecting precipitation and wind fields with high precision.   With a detection range of up to 400 km, and an operational sweep of 200 km, it covers a vast and diverse region: Direction Reach Key Areas North To the Ecuadorian borde...

Why is good the students know how speaking to a computer.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photos Courtesy by Iván Rotta Saavedra .   SULLANA, Peru – The first time I sat down in front of a computer was in 1986. Actually, it was in front of some Atari or Commodore keyboard plugged to a 14-inch white-&-black TV during a vacation class. It was the time when Michael Knight spent speaking with a Pontiac car’s computer in an emblematic TV series, apparently science-fiction that time. Today, many time later, I speak to my smartphone ’s computer when I need verified answers about specific topics which I even write this article. We are not talking about artificial intelligence only. Before it, the process to manage orders and have results have to do with programming the device for it gives me a product or result. In a free etimology , programming means writing or outlining with anticipation, and amid the computation world, it means setting up a set of orders a...

Students of a rural high-school grow their food, produce a podcast.   Written and photographed by David Domínguez for El Tambograndino Noticias   TAMBOGRANDÉ, Peru – The students of Niño Jesus de Praga High-School, El Convento Village, Malingas Alto Community , are developing two educational projects from subjects of Labor education and Communications. The first one is addressed to improve the technical-productive skills for growing organic vegetables . The students, advised by the Labor education teacher, seed cucumbers, coriander, carrots, beetroots, among others. The students plant, irrigate, care the vegetables – the interesting is that the school experience is brought home like harvest purposed to be added into the family   diet . Although those vegetables grow at the countryside, its local consumption trends to be lower in spite of its high nutritional properties.   In the second Project, the students produce a short news bulletin that helps ...

The basic you must know before, during, and after your place shakes. The land or the sea shake. It’s a fact that a quake breaks out everyday and every moment. Some are perceived by the human being, other don’t. we can’t avoid the process to happen. The fear and the questions appear almost immediately. Here we are going to take the most frequent ones, so answering them from a scientific perspective.   How do the quakes happen? The soil where we are onto seems to be an only  solid block, but it’s actually thousands of pieces floating over millions of liters of melted rock due to high pressure. Take many objects to float in a case, they could touch, crash, or embed, and every scenario’s cause transmits in waves. Let’s bring that figure out to the colossal size of the Earth . When some of those pieces interact violently to another, it breaks out a vibration we experience like a shake. Or like we call it technically – a quake . The scientists call it seism , but it des...

A rural school highlights in science, looks for stopping deforestation.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs Courttesy Luis Cevallos Jiménez .   This place is 3½ hours from Piura City going up to the east.   CANCHAQUÉ, Peru – Maybe, it’s the last primal dry forest patch in Buitré Mount. Teacher Luis Cevallos Jiménez thinks it’s about 74 acres. According to Soc’cha Alta elders, it was larger, still. Among chamelicos, guayacans, and hualtacos, it was detected anteaters, armadillos, deers , ocelots, peccaries, Barnett's  lanceheads, and blacktail cribos. Soc’cha Alta is a village of Canchaqué District , Huancabamba Province , extending on a slope going from 2756 to2887 feet altitude. It’s part of Bigoté Sub-Basin, a Piura River ’s tributary, and according to Mr Cevallos, it should be declared a protected area once it’s studied scientifically. The also principal of 15458 elementary school, where other two colleagues work and 33 children stu...

PIURA, Peru – The electricity distribution company ElectroNorOeste , SA implemented printed QR (quick response) codes in the consumption bills since this week for the payment to be easier, safer, and faster to its user,it reported. When the user scans the QR code with the smartphone, it opens the e-wallet application he or she uses. So, he or she could pay the service not needing to go to a box office or a bank. The code is available since June billing, it appears in the lower part of the bill [see the attached picture]. A company’s spokesperson  said the implementation was developed because the users asked for it – it adds to the other payment ways like e-banks, box office payment, and cash & consignment agents, as well as its website .  There’s no extra charge in all cases, but we suggest to check out the service terms of every collection entity before choosing the right one. A QR code is a combination of bars and squares added to any product or consumption uni...

Communications students perpetuate the beauty of Piura Monumental Zone.   Photographs Courtesy UPAO/DDC Piura.   PIURA CITY, Peru – How many times have you taken the time to go up this city but looking to explore beauty? Modern times are updating the face to the department’s capital – it doesn’t mean it’s printing identity . It would be convenient. However amid the contemporary, it still remains in the walls and public walks those strips that made the city of eternal heat like a lovely location that inspired big plays of Peruvian literature, classic waltzes of the national song archive too. Piura’s Descentralized Direction of Culture ( DDC Piura ) thinks one way to keep that legacy is through the divulgation of that patrimony, so promoting development . Yes, it’s possible. It’s called making it worthy . That’s why it  has been allied strategically to the Communications Programme of Piura’s Antenor Orrego Private University (UPAO Piura, as in Spanish). Bot...