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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...

Time to travel? FACTORTIERRA delivers an automatic tool to do your own forecasts.     Why should you spend your next vacations in Piura Department , Peru? First of all, the diversity of landscapes from the sea level to the snowless Andes that will give you different choices, from adventure to extreme passing through experiential. And maybe the most interesting insight is the constant weather – temperatures as well as feelings use to be nice along the year, especially since April to December… unless you want to enjoy our summer since January to March.   However, before to book your trip, or if you are up to take the plane (or the bus), it’s necessary you learn what the weather conditions are for your chosen destination. That’s why in FACTORTIERRA, we have checked out not only the most popular touristic places but others we have highlighted with our tourism tag on this blog, or our #visitPiura hashtag on Twitter. So here we have them classified by eco-regions ...

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...