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  [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...

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...

A trekking trail connecting at least three sites with archaeological evidence in Malingas.   Photographs gathered by Milton Garcia Navarro   TAMBOGRANDÉ, Peru – In 2011, FACTORTIERRA announced to the world the existence of an archaeological rests network that could be until 4000 years old, located at the central part of Malingas Community . Basically, it’s about evidences of art-on-the-rock on and around Malingas Cord, a branch formed by five mounts apparently caused by volcanic activity judging the basalt that mostly forms their slopes. More than a decade later, it’s starting to value the touristic potential the zone has, despite the sites have not officially confirmed yet, they just have a preliminary survey by the archaeologist Daniel Dávila Manrique , the first scientific explorer of the zone between 2010 and 2011. “I’d like to return, make a new survey of every site,” Dávila said to FACTORTIERRA, when he learned about the initiative of giving them a touristic...

By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo AYABACA, Peru – What are the conditions that the Aypate [pronounce Iappahteh] Archaeological Complex offers to receive the tourism? None at the moment because the Inca-origin building is not officially open for the tourism yet, although it does receive visitors who are allowed to enter for free under strict conditions like to keep clean the whole circled area, not to vandalize the building, and not to put on the walls, as it happened before. At the moment, Peru’s Ministry of Culture  and Lagunas de Canly Community are doing maintenance works like weeding, but it still remains to continue the restoration of monolithic walls those could be built after 1470 AD, when the armny commanded by emperor Túpac Inca Yupanqui devastated the settlement of Ayawaka tribe as he expanded the Tawantinsooyo Empire toward the north, what are the highlands of actual Ecuador. It is supposed that Aypate was for the Ayawakas as their main administrative, ...

Now, the same community protecting its forest and exporting its cacao presents us oral tradition, rural tourism and organic chocolate.  By Marco Flores Acho , Marco Paulini Espinoza and Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo .  Photographs by Marco Flores Acho and Marco Paulini Espinoza . CHULUCANAS, Peru - The night when Miguel Rivera was watching his property in Palo Blanco Village, he noticed  two little lights appeared at the fence. His cousin, who accompanied him, supposed it was about people walking through the muleteers route going parallel to Yapatera River's upper course, so he let him to know. When Rivera spoke aloud to identify the ones carrying the lights, he got no answer, so he shooted up the air in disuasive mode. The lights froze.  Supposing the advancing ones had understood the message, he tried to contact them for knowing who they were. It was when the lights started to approach towards his cousin and him. The rare was while the shining spots g...