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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) ...

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...

  SAPILLICA, Peru – Patrol ffarmerss in Pampa Verde Town, Sapillica District (Ayabaca Province), identified what seem to be petroglyphs or drawings carved on rock, according to the Journalist José encalada reported this Sunday to FACTORTIERRA, which has coordinated a related investigation in that same district as well as Tambogrande District (Piura Province). As a Pampa Verde’s patrol farmer stated to FACTORTIERRA this Monday, what they have identified up to today are five drawings carved on rock 1 mile around the town, especially beside Timbes River, and near water natural coppers that the locals know as “the lagoon.” FACTORTIERRA has sent the pictures to Lima-based archeologist Daniel Dávila, who specializes in Pre-Inca Age, and has investigated the existent petroglyphs in MalingasSector (Tambogrande District) between 2009 and 2011. Preliminarily, he has said they seem to be archaeological vestiges, but due to the photograph angle and the apparent damage status, ...

It looks like an enormous black egg embeded on the mountain slope. By Nelson Peñaherrera . Photos by Estany Tineo .   Cambia a español. SAPILLICA , Peru – “No, sir, the truck to Coletas departures tomorrow at five in the morning and gets back in the afternoon, assures us the driver of a motorcycle used as a taxi throough the tortuos dusty ways around this town. It is obvious that Juan, the driver, is trying to convince me for hiring the service.   It’s Thursday afternoon and since we have arrived to organize a minimum recognition logistics of the petroglyph our partner Marco Paulini reported last July , we’ve just found supporting promises but very few options for visiting the monolyth which highlights a spiral trace carved on basaltic rock. “ Are you going to The Devils’ Rock? That rock is bad! Pregnant women don’t pass over there,” a sixty-year-old lady warns me when she listens to my negotiation process with Juan. I take a little time to chat, hustle our producer ...