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They got the area – they are waiting for somebody to explain their sightings now.  By Nelson Peñaherrera .  Photos by Regional Government of Piura .    CHULUCANAS, Peru – White cacao cropped in Palo Blanco travels as far as the United states, France, Switzerland and Belgium, according to Sierra Exportadora, a Peruvian government agency that advises farmers with attractive products for international markets.  Although La Quemazón (pronounce “La KehmaZon”) , in San Juan de Bigote District (Piura) is considered as the best place in the world where white cacao is, the story of how Palo Blanco organized to satisfy this market has been so modeling until Lima-based RPP network granted it 2012 Integration Award. According to Sierra Exportadora, this cacao variety is better qualified but much rare in the whole planet: from global stock, it just means 0.25%. What could consumer public in the States or europe think if we say just beside the plantations, a Priva...

  A recognized still picture artist encourages himself a new challenge.   By elena Belletich de Rojas (University of Piura). Photographs by Heinz Plenge and Koko Zavala via University of Piura.   PIURA CITY, Peru – He’s one of the most important Nature photographers of our country and his works run around the world. Shy, Sensitive, hopeful of that in the future, Peru to be a more organized nation, Heinz Plenge lives deeply his passions for photography, Nature, and conservation. In his visit to Piura, after 15 years, he answers about everything – his dreams, the photography, his challenges, and about a project of a bird corridor that would cover the Peruvian Northern zone.   National Geographic , BBC Wildlife , Geo, The New York Time Magazine … You’ve published your photographs in the most important magazines and institutions of the world. Do you still remember the first time you saw your name in a releasing? When I began and my first photos released with the credit...

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...

Written and photographed by Kevin Jiménez González   SULLANA, Peru – The Chira Valley is an area of cultural importance – there are archaeological evidences those give to know it so. Its Pre-Hispanic importance is countersigned in the Spanish chronicles of Agustín de Zárate and Pedro Cieza de León. Its natural resources are abundant, the birds highlighting. It’s not a gamble that Baltasar Martínez de Compañón , who created El principé, actual Sullana City , published a watercolors volume dedicated to birds two centuries ago, after going through the Peruvian Northern and overall after going through the Chira Valley.   The birds are around the globe, they own a diversity of colors, sizes, tweets, quills, types of flying, and they are overall in the imaginery of the human being. One example of that is the Andean condor ( Vultur gryphus ) , the being that carries the soul to the eternity after the death. Plus, the birds are making and joining one of the main natural processes o...