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  Photographs by Milton García , distributed by FACTORTIERRA.   TAMBOGRANDÉ, Peru – The petroglyphs of Malingas were used as inspiration to make up an allegorical chariot as part of the carnival parade performed in this city on February 11 th , 2023. The chariot presented by Malingas Village Municipality got in brief the touristic potentials of the community – the landscape and the archaeological rests .   In the first case, San Francisco Creek was stylized as that is a Piura River tributary, that serves like the northern border for the community.   In the second one, one of the traces existent in Malingas was framed, that according to the preliminary investigation by the archeologist Daniel Dávila, made between 2009 and 2011, they might be 4000 years old, made by migrants getting from Amazon Basin, having such as relation with the existence of water. Check out the full sightings.   The investigation about Malingas Petroglyphs was promoted b...

  SAPILLICA, Peru – Patrol ffarmerss in Pampa Verde Town, Sapillica District (Ayabaca Province), identified what seem to be petroglyphs or drawings carved on rock, according to the Journalist José encalada reported this Sunday to FACTORTIERRA, which has coordinated a related investigation in that same district as well as Tambogrande District (Piura Province). As a Pampa Verde’s patrol farmer stated to FACTORTIERRA this Monday, what they have identified up to today are five drawings carved on rock 1 mile around the town, especially beside Timbes River, and near water natural coppers that the locals know as “the lagoon.” FACTORTIERRA has sent the pictures to Lima-based archeologist Daniel Dávila, who specializes in Pre-Inca Age, and has investigated the existent petroglyphs in MalingasSector (Tambogrande District) between 2009 and 2011. Preliminarily, he has said they seem to be archaeological vestiges, but due to the photograph angle and the apparent damage status, ...

  [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...

TAMBOGRANDE, Peru – Malingas Town’s Mayor Jesús María García Varillas will pull a Project that resets her community in the local and international context, she informed this Thursday May 23 rd after having a meeting with the FACTORTIERRA.NET’s producer Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo at that village for gathering ideas those benefit the southeastern portion of Tambogrande District, where it is located. The mayor’s idea is to estimulate the creation, launching, and placement of different products and services based upon Malingas resources by using the media in general as diffusion platforms to the big audience, starting from the strengthening of skills at a communitarian level. In that context, local leaders promoted a meeting between García and Peñaherrera to coordinate activities based on the experience that the producer developed in 2009-2011 at the zone, with the FACTORTIERRA.NET crew , by assignment of the Malingas Zone Development’s Committee, so he got a environmental...

TAMBOGRANDE, Peru – The Municipality of Malingas Town will have its first promotional video for Malingas Brand, Mayor Jesús María García announced on her Facebook account, and the production was assigned to our contents producer Nelson Peñaherrera. According to García, the feature looks for having an overview  of the best of life, economy, landscape, and existent resources with touristic potential in that community, especially archeology and adventure sports. Field production is scheduled to begin on April 1 st , only if the emergency state ruled by the Peruvian Government gets over due to the expansion of new corona-virus. About this, Peñaherrera upcame the video to be a length less to 5 minutes and it will be mostly thought for distribution and sharing on the different social media, and inside it, the own Malingas people are looked to have much starring as a talent featured before a global audience, what increases the chance to place this zone. The Journali...

How did it start up and break the first plant to process solid residues across Piura?   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photos by Simon Garragate .   SULLANA, Peru – A cistern truck gets again to a sewer hole at the skirts of Bellavista City toward El Cucho Village. It contains residual water from Humboldt squid process that is made at the Industrial Zone. The Sullana Province’s Municipality (MPS as its initials in Spanish) admits that the equivalent to 70 vehicles of that kind (about 30 tons each one) eliminate residual water to Chira River through that hole. This means 2.1 million liters every 24 hours.   “It’s rich in ammonia and nitrogen,” the manager of one processing plants explains to me. The liquid smells bad, but it is not polluting technically neither legally, first, because it’s about an enriched fluid, second, because the Peruvian Criminal Code does not specify the stench as a cause of contamination crime.   But, the things change when the whole spill...