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At least during three years, touristic guides and businesspersons warned there would be a collapse.     LÚYA, Peru – In 1998, Peruvian Government declared the archaeological complex of Kuélap as cultural patrimony. The touristic reviews describe it like an architectural jewel built by the ancient Chachapoya people , a little confederation of communities settled down in the steepest, wildest lands between Marañón River to the west and Huallaga River to the east. In Peru dimensions, it’s about the Upper Jungle or Rupa-Rupa eco-region – the mountain rain forest, actually, already in Amazon Basin .   The chahchapoya or shacshapooyo (fog’s people, in English) flourished between 900 and 1470 AD extending between the south of Amazonas Department , all the western half of san Martín Department, and the eastern side of La Libertad Department. They were contemporary of the Incas what conquered them during the reign of Tupac Inca Yupanqi who started the expansion of ...

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...

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 ...

All the Peruvian locations of transformers – The Rise Of Beasts .   The seventh movie of Transformers franchise has been partially staged in Peru. The complete storyline is about two antagonic bands of humanoid robots, coming from planet Cybertron , capable to develop feelings and transforming in vehicles or devices.     It’s not the first time the producers use this country to tell some episode  of the story. In 1984, when the cartoon series was launched, the ninth episode was dedicated to Peru .   Decepticons, the bad band, discover an Inca temple that is actually an energetic conduit to the Earth’s core, which control they look for taking  by building  a plug made of stolen steel from a nearby farmer community .   If the wardrobe  and the faces of the characters left no doubt it was about Peru, the scripts left clear it was about the Andes of this country. About the Inca temple, it’s not specified which one is about, i...