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Piura’s Disconcentered Culture Board (DDC as its acronyme in Spanish) has recognized the cultural characters of the region, who worked during 2019 by including the community  through the conservation and validation of cultural patrimony, strengthening the cultural identity, and promoting the diversity and intercultural dialogue. Cultural Patrimony Rear Admiral César Morales Huerta-Mercado: From his position as Commander of Peru’s 1 st Navy Zone has launched the signing up of Casa Museo Grau in National System of Public Museums, as well as signing up the cultural collection of that museum in the National List of Cultural Real Estate. Pina Zúñiga de Riofrío: Because her most recent publishing Memory of An Effort – San Lucas de Colán’s Church , what tells the work made restoring one of the oldest Catholic temples at Southern Pacific. Re-validating Piura’s Monumental Zone Programme: Its goal is releasing the cultural, artistic, and historical values of this important d...

By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo AYABACA, Peru – What are the conditions that the Aypate [pronounce Iappahteh] Archaeological Complex offers to receive the tourism? None at the moment because the Inca-origin building is not officially open for the tourism yet, although it does receive visitors who are allowed to enter for free under strict conditions like to keep clean the whole circled area, not to vandalize the building, and not to put on the walls, as it happened before. At the moment, Peru’s Ministry of Culture  and Lagunas de Canly Community are doing maintenance works like weeding, but it still remains to continue the restoration of monolithic walls those could be built after 1470 AD, when the armny commanded by emperor Túpac Inca Yupanqui devastated the settlement of Ayawaka tribe as he expanded the Tawantinsooyo Empire toward the north, what are the highlands of actual Ecuador. It is supposed that Aypate was for the Ayawakas as their main administrative, ...

CATACAOS, Peru - If you are arriving into Piura City this Sunday, April 7th, or the first Sunday of every month, and you want to connect to the Pre-Hispanic past of Piura Valley, the Narihualá Site Museum is a good choice, just located 3 miles away or 10 minutes by car from Catacaos City. The Narihualá Site is an archaeological spot formed by a huaca (pronounce "waka") or sacred place built at the top of a hill, pressumibly Tallán origin, over which the Spaniards built a Catholic temple as part of idolatry extirpation policy adopted when they conquered Peru in 1532 AD. There is no consensus among archeologists about the nature of Narihualá yet. They suppose it was a military-political center, or a religious one, or a combination of both. What they have clear is that Narihualá could be the most important place for Tallán Culture , that fluorished in actual Piura and Tumbes Regions lowlands between 500 AD and 1470 AD. The Discentered Direction of Culture (DDC) annunced...

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 ...

Piura is actually a seismic zone – we just must make safe buildings.   SULLANA, Peru – The land shook on Monday, April 2 nd , 2012. The first record of Peru’s Geophysical Institute (IGP, as its initials in Spanish) marked 6.2 magnitude in Richter Scale and VI intensity in Mercalli Scale . Later, it was modified to 5.0 magnitude in Richter’s and III intensity in Mercalli’s, taking Piura City as a reference.   The epicenter , that originally was located 25 miles to the west of Sullana City , ended to correct to 12 miles to the southeast of that spot, 57 miles depth. At least, the department’s coast felt it strong causing the people to overreact – the most were resting at home. It was eigt past ten at night, local time (0308 GMT, April 3 rd , 2012).   The mechanism of quakes in Piura is not different from the western coast of South America. The phenomenon is caused by the subduction of Nazca Plate against the South American Plate . Said simple, the subductio...

          Carlo Mejía Rojas is a prominent artist from Piura whose work spans from teaching to artistic creation in various disciplines such as painting, theater, dance, and music . With a solid and accomplished career, Mejía has dedicated his life to promoting art and culture in his community, making an impact both educationally and culturally.   Mejía Rojas was educated at some of the most renowned art schools in Peru. He began his studies at the Macedonio de la Torre School of Fine Arts in Trujillo in 1998 and later continued at the Ignacio Merino School of Fine Arts in Piura, where he graduated in 2000.   He furthered his education with studies in graphic design at the Ábaco Institute in Piura in 2007 and training in artistic screen printing between 2012 and 2013.   Mejía's teaching career began in 2001 and has spanned over two decades in various educational institutions, both at the primary and secondary levels. His spe...

    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...