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    By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Peru – W hat happened in actual Piura Department before 1532 AD is a big unknown. What we know is explained in key of legend. The rest has consisted in a long forensic work: tracking, digging, extracting, comparing, assuming the gotten is just a piece of a huge puzzle which blanks continue to be as remarkable as the parts seeming to shape.   It’s the case of Tallans , as we know, people who evolved in parallel to Incas,which deadline seems to have ended when the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro entered actual Chira Valley in 1532 through actual Lanconés District , after starting his march from actual Tumbés Department . We know that because there are written records from that point up after – the problem is from that point down before.   Skillful farmers and fishers There is some consensus in historians and archaeologists the Tallans were not one only people but a kind of association of peopl...

The Pre-Columbian history in and around the second largest city of Piura urges a bigger investigation.  All photographs by César Rivas , special to FACTORTIERRA SULLANA, Peru - Locals in Upper Chira Valley call them "lomas" (hills in English)  and their houses are around them. Inclusive, one of them is the source for making adobes or unbaked bricks in Chalacalá Baja Town. But at least around 550 years ago, they seemed to be funerary monts. "There are at least about 30 huacas like those between Sullana [City] and  La Peña," Archaeologist Daniel Dávila Manrique explains. We have already shared with him the experience of identifying and verifying evidences of this kind in

It costed US$ 187,500 but its users prefer going to Chira Valley.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   The sunset between Districts Marcavelica (first) and Salitral (second) as one of our producers took while he was running along Chira Valley. (Photo by Luis Correa / FACTORTIERRA)   SULLANA, Peru – The papers say bikeway . For real, it may be called free community car parking . In Santa Rosa Urbanization, West Sullana City , some neighbors use the lane for bikers like a parking for their cars, pick-ups, or motorcycles – it apparently has not been hard to get it. The cement of conntention bumps has pulverized quite easily – there aren’t today, already. Add to this, the paint marking the signs from, on, and toward the bikeway is practically vanished.   Damaged accessories of the bikeway in West Sullana City and the use the neighbors really give it. (Photos by Luis Enrique Curay , especial to Semana and distributedd by FACTORTIERRA)   Initiall...