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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, ...

A new interpretation of the most famous cult in Piura opens up two theories.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   AYABACA, Peru – Is the Señor Cautivo festivity a massive act of Catholic faith, or is it a reminiscence of ancient cults, what eradicated by the Spanish Conquest during the extirpation of idolatries , transformed in a completely new manifestation? Anthropologist Raúl Zevallos Ortiz published an essay suggesting the modern Señor Cautivo pilgrimage could have a remote origin in time.   According to Zevallos, during the Pre-Inca time, the people of Piura Department lowlands, mostly a desert, began to research where their existence source came from – water . Piura Coast is irrigated by two rivers: Piura and Chira.   The first one starts at actual Huancabamba Province southern sierra and is irregular flow, what means full in rainy months and almost dry during the lowwater. The second one has two sources: the most northern is in Loja, Ecuador, and the souther...