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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...

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...

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...