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The ecologic sugar is one of the healthy and exportable choices of Piura. Photos Courtesy Comunicaciones Piura . PIURA CITY, Peru - It seems to be a titanic challenge but somebody has to do it: sweetening everything that can be sweetened not increasing one pound of body weight. The stebia is already a solution available in the local market but its price continues a bit expensive above than conventional sugar. The choices are giving up or following in search of another natural option, reasonable price… and that gets the task of keeping healthy especially in a region where the levels of diabetes or heart-related diseases are high in Peruvian context. Maybe that option is the granulated pan , the evaporated and crystalized sugarcane juice for obtaining pure sucrose . There is no more process to do, not chemical at least. The home of the granulated pan in Peru seems to be Piura Region and specifically midlands of Ayabaca and Huancabamba Provinces.  For the lifetime, it ...

A new interpretation of the most famous cult in Piura opens up two theories.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   AYABACA, Peru – Is the Señor Cautivo festivity a massive act of Catholic faith, or is it a reminiscence of ancient cults, what eradicated by the Spanish Conquest during the extirpation of idolatries , transformed in a completely new manifestation? Anthropologist Raúl Zevallos Ortiz published an essay suggesting the modern Señor Cautivo pilgrimage could have a remote origin in time.   According to Zevallos, during the Pre-Inca time, the people of Piura Department lowlands, mostly a desert, began to research where their existence source came from – water . Piura Coast is irrigated by two rivers: Piura and Chira.   The first one starts at actual Huancabamba Province southern sierra and is irregular flow, what means full in rainy months and almost dry during the lowwater. The second one has two sources: the most northern is in Loja, Ecuador, and the souther...

While the Peruvian hydraulics celebrated a triumph, she lost a great part of her life.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs by Franco Alburqueque .   LANCONÉS, Peru – Benefit for farmers or a dictatorship’s megalomania?Over 800 million cubic meters  --4/5 parts of its capability— Poechos Reservoir begins the water transference from Chira River to Piura River .   Not all people share the joy. Turning 74 years, Mariana Távara settles down far her home, now submerged under all that liquitd amount. On behalf of the departmen’s agricultural expansion, she must brand a new life next to her family in a town with almost all the comfort, but her heart. “The history of Lanconés finished with Poechos Dam,” she states 35 years later.   Walking among rim orchards When Sullana Province just crowled 8 months old, Mariana born in Lanconés, a village located at Chira River’s rim near Ecuador. It was mid-July. “It was a little town with wood houses...