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The first bike ride play that celebrated  the signature of ecuador-Peru Peace Agreement. By Nelson Peñaherrera C . All photographs provided by Radio Nuevo Norte and distributed by FACTORTIERRA. The pictures belong to the first edition of bike ride play on September 19th, 1999, and this is the first time they are released than any website before. Km or Mile 0, Sullana City, Peru. Altitude: 60 m or 196 ft. The starting point since the first edition on September 19th, 1999. Km 25 or Mile 16, Valle de los Incas, near Tambogrande City, Peru. Altitude: 72 m or 236 ft. MACARÁ INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE, Borderline between Loja, ecuador and Piura, Peru - It is another day among several days when buses cross over Macará River , the flow that after running towards the West, meets Catamayo River and forms Chira River . Tourists, salespersons and people with mostly domestic agendas use the path regularily and much easily just presenting their national IDs, an Andean Card and perhaps a...

While the Peruvian hydraulics celebrated a triumph, she lost a great part of her life.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs by Franco Alburqueque .   LANCONÉS, Peru – Benefit for farmers or a dictatorship’s megalomania?Over 800 million cubic meters  --4/5 parts of its capability— Poechos Reservoir begins the water transference from Chira River to Piura River .   Not all people share the joy. Turning 74 years, Mariana Távara settles down far her home, now submerged under all that liquitd amount. On behalf of the departmen’s agricultural expansion, she must brand a new life next to her family in a town with almost all the comfort, but her heart. “The history of Lanconés finished with Poechos Dam,” she states 35 years later.   Walking among rim orchards When Sullana Province just crowled 8 months old, Mariana born in Lanconés, a village located at Chira River’s rim near Ecuador. It was mid-July. “It was a little town with wood houses...

There are any between Southern Ecuador and Central Peru – this is the most plausible explanation.     The usual condition for what a volcano breaks out or erupts is under the Earth crus t – the mantle (the second layer going to the core), that is basically melted rock or magma , find weak zones at the crust where it can emerge due to the high pressure expanding the liquid and gas fluids as well.   This can happen in places where the crust is literally cracked because of subduction or embedding of a tectonic plate beneath another. The phenomenon causes so much friction that melts all the matter, so this tends to seek where to emerge by. If it gets, it goes up until reaching the surface taking out through a new way or a previously open one. A volcanic eruption happens so.   In case of the Andes, although Nazca Plate subducts under the South American Plate, it doesn’t do like an only lineal block but at two contact points: The first, according to ...

Tourism in Piura Region became an interesting issue for our English-speaker audience between April and June of this year. The analysis that Viajala.com did about this Peruvian territory, and quoted by CNN en Español, attracted muchly in Ecuador, then in Peru. It wonders us so much since the countries are mostly Spanish-speakers. Other dspecific destinations are Las Palmeras de Yaranche’s Coppers (Tambogrande) and Palo Blanco Community (Chulucanas), this last one specially in Peru. Again, the country is Spanish-speaker. Other stories that indirectly touch the tourism are the initiative of a Sullana-based radiostation to celebrate the Peru-Ecuador Peace Agreement , preferred in Ecuador, and the white cacao of Palo Blanco (Chulucanas) , preferred in Japan. The combination of art and health by using the theatre to improve the children’s feeding was tagged from Israel, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The natural disasters also took a place for the audience in two sto...

Although goat cattle predominates in Piura Coast, it does not consolidate a market for competing beyond its boundaries yet. All photos by William Curay , provided to FACTORTIERRA. MARCAVELICA, Peru - Taking advantage of September 24th Piura 's holiday, in Cañas Village an habit has been started during the last years: having a fair dedicated to goat cattle. It is about  one of the three towns benefit with projects to generate productive chains around the milk of those animals brought by the Spaniards in 16th century, those found a pretty good environment at lowlands here. Cañas is about 25 km or 15.5 miles to the north of Mallarés Town, what is 13 km or 8,8 miles to the northwest of Sullana City.  The road is easily accessible as light as it rains. In Peru, approximately 210,000 families work and depend on growing goats. The majority of those little growers have unsatisfied basic needs. In Piura case, the majority live at Equatorial Dry Forest , a coastal ecosystem...