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Photographs Courtesy Fidel Torres.   PIURA CITY, Peru – The highlands of El Carmen de la Frontera District are one of the  most recognized stores of water, food, and even medicine in the world, but one of the less studied discounting its few official protection. With the support of Peru’s Environment Ministry (Minam, as in Spanish), Biologist Fidel Torres continues unveiling the secrets of this place that holds the two key ecosystems of Piura – jalcas or páramos and cloud forests .   Precisely, the investigation is focused in this second space where it’s also latent the investment of Rio Blanco mining company, that wants to extract coopper and molybdenum, what have led it to ask for dialogue to local authorities, and those ones to deny it.   FACTORTIERRA: Why did you do this trip to the cloud forest nearby Henry’s Hill? FIDEL TORRES: It’s about executing the investigation plan of Ethnics-Botanics and Bioactive Substances of Main Non-Timber Species ...

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 ...

The project of athlete Ronald Benites for protecting the environment and our health across Piura Region. All photographs from Ronald Benites Archive .   CHULUCANAS, Peru - Modern times imply to live fastly, it is said. But how much fast? For our partner Ronald Benites , it may be as fast as a bicycle, which he has run around 840 km or 520 miles of highway inside Piura Region, with two purposes: to make the people concious about the care of Earth, and to educate about using a transportation mean that produces no significant impacts on the environment, benefits the health instead. The vehicle, created in actual Germany in 1817 , has been during 20th century one of the most popular transportation means  across Piura, especially the coast, and very particularly at the rural zone where it competed with animals of burden. Currently, its using at Piura's cities is relatively restricted and at the countryside, the bikes as well as the animals have been displaced by motorcycle...