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A visit into the most western nascent of Amazon River. Written and photographed by  Ronald Benites , Special to  FACTORTIERRA. EL CARMEN DE LA FRONTERA, Peru - The mountain range will ever fascinate us by many motivations: the solids' majestic, the landscapes, the cool climate, even the culture. Perhaps it is about that fascination of feeling us closer to the sky, at least for us who feel it so. I love the mountain range - I am learning to love it. If all would depend on me, I  took every time I get to  come here, breathe  pure air, enjoy around. I already declared I am an activist of of this kind of spaces, so the coherent will be ever coming  here as much as I can, like right now. I am in a car  going up from Huancabamba City because my today's task is reaching the Shimbe [pronounce "Shimbeh"]Lake, origin of Huancabamba River , and if  we look at the map, the most occidental nascent of Amazon River . Shimbé or White Lake (Laguna ...

By Julio Vásquez Calle   MONTERO, Peru – The former Sícchez [Seekches] District ’s Mayor Octavio Chuquihuanga Cunya, also former president of the Señor Cautivo Commonwealth, said in 2008 that the rural agriculture of Piura Department highlands is different to the agriculture in lowlands. Those differences are that offer a development chance, joined to the organizations, into an only development vision.   “Being this agricultural corridor [Montero, Jililí, and Sícchez], today it wants to be agriexporter when it is already exporting ecologic coffee to the fair trade markets, international markets, today we are going to make it with the ecologic sugar,” affirmed Mr Chuquihuanga, who also confirmed it was building the first hi-tech industrial processing plant of ecologic sugar in Sícchez District.   By his side, the former Montero District ’s Mayor Ramón Febre Palacios, also former vice-president of the commonwealth, shared the successful experience by exportin...

The first bike ride play that celebrated  the signature of ecuador-Peru Peace Agreement. By Nelson Peñaherrera C . All photographs provided by Radio Nuevo Norte and distributed by FACTORTIERRA. The pictures belong to the first edition of bike ride play on September 19th, 1999, and this is the first time they are released than any website before. Km or Mile 0, Sullana City, Peru. Altitude: 60 m or 196 ft. The starting point since the first edition on September 19th, 1999. Km 25 or Mile 16, Valle de los Incas, near Tambogrande City, Peru. Altitude: 72 m or 236 ft. MACARÁ INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE, Borderline between Loja, ecuador and Piura, Peru - It is another day among several days when buses cross over Macará River , the flow that after running towards the West, meets Catamayo River and forms Chira River . Tourists, salespersons and people with mostly domestic agendas use the path regularily and much easily just presenting their national IDs, an Andean Card and perhaps a...

What does it happen underneath the nearby soil of Sullana Metropolitan Area?   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo | Blog | Twitter | Instagram | WhatsApp     MIGUEL CHECA, peru – Nothing unusual underneath the soil of Chira Valley but a huge land mass embedding under another apparently static. That’s how the report by Hernando Tavera and Julio Martínez with Peru’s Geophysical Institute (IGP as its initials in Spanish) might be briefed after the 6.1-magnitude quake (moderate) that shook a 155-mile area around a hypocenter 21 miles under a spot 11 miles to the west of Sullana 20101 , on October 5 th , 2022.   The epicenter was located between the towns of Sojo and Jíbito, Miguel Checa District , that means between Sullana 20771 and Sullana 20770 . This fact is relevant for the scientists because it trembled amid the continent, not under the sea, like it indeed has happened in events with magnitudes upper than 7.5, mostly reported at Peruvian Southern ...