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The relationship between Piura City and the water has not been one of the most positive, misunderstandings are older than its Spanish foundation.  By Nelson Peñaherrera   PIURA CITY , Peru - It is supposed that Francisco Pizarro founded San Miguel on August 15th, 1532, becoming the first Spanish Empire's city in South America, locating  it over the Tallan [pronounce "Tajahn"]  town of Tangarara, actual Marcavelica District, just beside Chira (then Turicarami in Tallan language) River.  What promised to be a productive convivence -the soil was pretty fertile- turned disease soon. Malaria decimated the immigrant population, that decided to move away the river . In 1534, it went about 50 miles SE of Tangarará, next to Pilán Mount, Monte de los Padres Acres and Las Damas Creek, actual La Matanza District. Although Lengash River ran nearby,  the city did not located beside this time. It could be renamed as Piura (supposedly from quechuan "Pir...

They said that 2012 would be a dry year… they said.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   PIURA CITY, Peru – Sánchez Cerro Vridge, February 24 th , 2012, 7:00 in the morning, 1400 cubic millimeters per second. The water is colorized by the violent improvisation instead of the unexpected. Piura River overload was the season attraction after months and months looking a flow like a creek-category.   The cement coat of Eguiguren Pier avoids the flow power to erode the banks of Piura and Castilla Cities, like it happened in 1983. The work was build after 45 miles to the west, El Niño Current caused extreme rains between January and June of that year.   The river put the people on alert in 1998, 2001, and 2005. Just in 1998, the power of water destroyed Bolognesi Bridge, the fourth from north to south, killing around 50 people. “I’m not never going to forget that number – 4414 cubic meters per second,” El Tiempo’s journalist Teo Zavala remembers. After that tragedy, every ...

Since 1532, the history of Piura was not seen too shocked by a global impact event like the history of this town in San Lorenzo Valley.   TAMBOGRANDE, Peru – The most heart-breaking and baffling tale done about the history of this community is, no doubt, a Canadian Journalist’s who approached like a researcher and became one of the main keys for the world to understand the facts in its right perspective.   Coming next, we transcript the first minutes of the multi-awarded documentary Tambogrande – Mangos, Murder, Mining produced by Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd, and what sets the causes of almost all the problems that led in social conflicts along the Peruvian territory.   If when you’re reading those lines, you can’t hold your emotion, just imagine what we felt who lived the whole story on live when we watched and listened to the Stephanie’s accented Spanish, something that was ever screamed out but that nobody dared to carry on until the end.   By Stephanie ...

By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs provided by Antenor Orrego Private University.   Photos by Antenor Orrego Private University.   Photo by erick Aquino.   PIURA CITY, Peru – Without intention,Marcela Temple Seminario became one of the most powerful women in earth, she knew how to use  it – the wife of former United Nations Organization’s General Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar served the poorest people.   Through a prestigious international newspaper, she published a letter asking for solidarity with Timbocttu, Mali, an African country where the kids lived in extreme poverty. She impressed to see the flies putting on the children’s skin.   The post was successful, moved the entire world… or that happened in the 1980s, at least. Few people know Marcela Temple born and raised in Piura. Her family’s house is still in the downtown, inside the so-called Monumental Zone .   It’s one of dozen  of buildings framed in...