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Almost all Piura region will have to be intervened for preventing problems caused by the abundance of water - or its lack.  By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo PIURA CITY, Peru - One of the most extended prejudges by the people visiting Piura is believing that the whole territory is flat when the reality points out that the Andean Range , from its first spurs, occupies its half. And the fact is relevant when we want to explain natural events  like the floods during  a

The need to have more parks versus the need to have more houses. By Nelson Peñaherrera C . Photographs provided by ImaginaParque. PIURA CITY, Peru - The hunger for money and the need for a home seem to be pushing the invasion of public spaces for parks. The right of someones is literally drowning the right of a community needing oxygen and regulating the climate, also creating or keeping  ecosystems those got to adapt inside urban spaces. And inside that same urban space, there are human beings who need a place to live, and the whole controversy seem to base upon right here. The denounces of lots usurpation across Piura City  are daily and they all configure alleged criminal schemes  those even the local Catholic Church has been pressumibily involved, as Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV network suggested mid-December 2016 . In contrast at Santa Julia Neighborhood, located at city's western sector, it try to prevent another future park to disappear combining urbanism a...

Although goat cattle predominates in Piura Coast, it does not consolidate a market for competing beyond its boundaries yet. All photos by William Curay , provided to FACTORTIERRA. MARCAVELICA, Peru - Taking advantage of September 24th Piura 's holiday, in Cañas Village an habit has been started during the last years: having a fair dedicated to goat cattle. It is about  one of the three towns benefit with projects to generate productive chains around the milk of those animals brought by the Spaniards in 16th century, those found a pretty good environment at lowlands here. Cañas is about 25 km or 15.5 miles to the north of Mallarés Town, what is 13 km or 8,8 miles to the northwest of Sullana City.  The road is easily accessible as light as it rains. In Peru, approximately 210,000 families work and depend on growing goats. The majority of those little growers have unsatisfied basic needs. In Piura case, the majority live at Equatorial Dry Forest , a coastal ecosystem...

They said that 2012 would be a dry year… they said.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   PIURA CITY, Peru – Sánchez Cerro Vridge, February 24 th , 2012, 7:00 in the morning, 1400 cubic millimeters per second. The water is colorized by the violent improvisation instead of the unexpected. Piura River overload was the season attraction after months and months looking a flow like a creek-category.   The cement coat of Eguiguren Pier avoids the flow power to erode the banks of Piura and Castilla Cities, like it happened in 1983. The work was build after 45 miles to the west, El Niño Current caused extreme rains between January and June of that year.   The river put the people on alert in 1998, 2001, and 2005. Just in 1998, the power of water destroyed Bolognesi Bridge, the fourth from north to south, killing around 50 people. “I’m not never going to forget that number – 4414 cubic meters per second,” El Tiempo’s journalist Teo Zavala remembers. After that tragedy, every ...

After three years without precipitations, they came back to smash the same places where a similar episode happened more than a decade ago.     A heavy rain falling over Sapillica Town, Upper Chipillico Valley, Ayabaca Province , on February 21 st , 2023. However, just 0.8 inches of rain fell that day.  (Footage provided by El Tambograndino Noticias )   The most Piura Department, Peru, had moderate to heavy rains between 19 th and 25 th of February, 2023, feeling stronger between 22 nd and 23 rd . It was not a surprising episode. Peru’s National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (Senamhyi, as in Spanish)issued such warnings since the 19 th by tagging orange alertfor coast and highlands of Northern Peru.   Based upon satellite reports consulted by FACTORTIERRA and eyewitnesses on the field, the precipitations smashed mostly on Provinces ayabaca, Huancabamba, and Morropón, the whole crossed by the Andean Range, which had receiving rains interm...