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Canchaqué suffered again from a slide of mud and rocks during rains in 2023.     All the footage: © Juan Francisco Facundo Silva .   CANCHAQUÉ, Peru— “Look how it left!,” exclaims Juan Francisco Facundo Silva, a computation technician and producer of a streaming music-TV show, as he saw the debris and the print of a slide of mud and rocks happened just before midnight, March 15 th , 2023.   Juan, artistically known as Facundo, arrived three days later to see how his remaining family was doing in Canchaqué Town , 91 miles by road from Piura City – he couldn’t hold on the sadness despite he tried to manage it by recording with his mobile the clips we share here.   Collating a preliminary report by Peru’s National Institute of Civil Defense and testimonies of eyewitnesses gathered by FACTORTIERRA, on March 15 th , 2023, 23:15 PET (0415 UTC, March 16 th , 2023), Púsmalca Valley, where Canchaqué Town is located, had “intense rains.”   Some...

A trip to the Pre-Hispanic past, to the top of a mountain, and to the foot of a cascade.   Sunset from the top of Guayanay Mount. | All photographs provided by Andrés Facundo , distributed by FACTORTIERRA.   HUANCABAMBA, Peru – If you are in Piura City and you have a full free day, rather free at the afternoon and the following morning, here you have a tour that will bring you to the Pre-Hispanic past, raise to the top of a mountain, drown into the water flowing inside out of it.   It’s just three hours by car from Piura City (146 km or 91 miles to the east). It’s accessible around the year, although the best season is between May and October . Its difficulty levels are multiples so it easily fits to your age and current physical condition. In addition, it connects you to other very popular local attractions.   The circuit extends between Districts Canchaqué and san Miguel de El Faiqué , between 1100 meters (3600 feet) and 1270 meters (4170 feet) ...

Time to travel? FACTORTIERRA delivers an automatic tool to do your own forecasts.     Why should you spend your next vacations in Piura Department , Peru? First of all, the diversity of landscapes from the sea level to the snowless Andes that will give you different choices, from adventure to extreme passing through experiential. And maybe the most interesting insight is the constant weather – temperatures as well as feelings use to be nice along the year, especially since April to December… unless you want to enjoy our summer since January to March.   However, before to book your trip, or if you are up to take the plane (or the bus), it’s necessary you learn what the weather conditions are for your chosen destination. That’s why in FACTORTIERRA, we have checked out not only the most popular touristic places but others we have highlighted with our tourism tag on this blog, or our #visitPiura hashtag on Twitter. So here we have them classified by eco-regions ...