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  [Exclusive] The contact with Nature  and a millenial history are their best assets, but it's necessary to run the extra mile for making them irresistible. By César Correa Castillo . All photographs from FACTORTIERRA Archives.   TAMBOGRANDE, Peru - After finishing my studies of Touristic and Hotel Management at César Vallejo University in Piura, I felt attracted by the work that FACTORTIERRA has done in  Malingas Community in 2009, especially due to the international impact it got. YOUTUBE : Watch the spot that FACTORTIERRA.NET produced to attract the interest on Malingas resources . Because of that investigation, that crew deserved  the 2011 Environmental Citizenship National Award , the first one ever gotten by any initiative in Piura Department. Even in 2013, this was the location used by History Latin America network  to reenact a story that the website published in 2008 and what was seen by 40 million homes across the continent. Upon...

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...

  Photographs by Milton García , distributed by FACTORTIERRA.   TAMBOGRANDÉ, Peru – The petroglyphs of Malingas were used as inspiration to make up an allegorical chariot as part of the carnival parade performed in this city on February 11 th , 2023. The chariot presented by Malingas Village Municipality got in brief the touristic potentials of the community – the landscape and the archaeological rests .   In the first case, San Francisco Creek was stylized as that is a Piura River tributary, that serves like the northern border for the community.   In the second one, one of the traces existent in Malingas was framed, that according to the preliminary investigation by the archeologist Daniel Dávila, made between 2009 and 2011, they might be 4000 years old, made by migrants getting from Amazon Basin, having such as relation with the existence of water. Check out the full sightings.   The investigation about Malingas Petroglyphs was promoted b...

TAMBOGRANDE, Peru – Malingas Town’s Mayor Jesús María García Varillas will pull a Project that resets her community in the local and international context, she informed this Thursday May 23 rd after having a meeting with the FACTORTIERRA.NET’s producer Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo at that village for gathering ideas those benefit the southeastern portion of Tambogrande District, where it is located. The mayor’s idea is to estimulate the creation, launching, and placement of different products and services based upon Malingas resources by using the media in general as diffusion platforms to the big audience, starting from the strengthening of skills at a communitarian level. In that context, local leaders promoted a meeting between García and Peñaherrera to coordinate activities based on the experience that the producer developed in 2009-2011 at the zone, with the FACTORTIERRA.NET crew , by assignment of the Malingas Zone Development’s Committee, so he got a environmental...

A trekking trail connecting at least three sites with archaeological evidence in Malingas.   Photographs gathered by Milton Garcia Navarro   TAMBOGRANDÉ, Peru – In 2011, FACTORTIERRA announced to the world the existence of an archaeological rests network that could be until 4000 years old, located at the central part of Malingas Community . Basically, it’s about evidences of art-on-the-rock on and around Malingas Cord, a branch formed by five mounts apparently caused by volcanic activity judging the basalt that mostly forms their slopes. More than a decade later, it’s starting to value the touristic potential the zone has, despite the sites have not officially confirmed yet, they just have a preliminary survey by the archaeologist Daniel Dávila Manrique , the first scientific explorer of the zone between 2010 and 2011. “I’d like to return, make a new survey of every site,” Dávila said to FACTORTIERRA, when he learned about the initiative of giving them a touristic...

TAMBOGRANDE, Peru – The Municipality of Malingas Town will have its first promotional video for Malingas Brand, Mayor Jesús María García announced on her Facebook account, and the production was assigned to our contents producer Nelson Peñaherrera. According to García, the feature looks for having an overview  of the best of life, economy, landscape, and existent resources with touristic potential in that community, especially archeology and adventure sports. Field production is scheduled to begin on April 1 st , only if the emergency state ruled by the Peruvian Government gets over due to the expansion of new corona-virus. About this, Peñaherrera upcame the video to be a length less to 5 minutes and it will be mostly thought for distribution and sharing on the different social media, and inside it, the own Malingas people are looked to have much starring as a talent featured before a global audience, what increases the chance to place this zone. The Journali...

Tiny, voracious, it’s eating massively the leaves of the most emblematic tree of Piura.   Attacked carob trees ( Prosopis pallida ) in Cruz Verde, a town of Malingas Community , in Tambograndé, Peru, as they looked like on July 27 th , 2023. Locals told FACTORTIERRA that they also noticed defoliation of Caesalpinia paipai in the acres and Malingas Mount . All photographs along this ENTRY by Milton Garcia , distributed by FACTORTIERRA.   Again, the Peruvian carob trees ( Prosopis pallida ) are losing their leaves –specialists and activists already have a usual suspect this time, despite they couldn’t quantify the extension, yet, so the cost of the damage.   It’s about the Enallodiplosis discordis ( Diptera : Cecidomyiidae ), a kind of tiny fly from the large cecidomid genus, that seems to flourish in dry, desert climates. It was systematized in 1994 by Raymond J. Gagne for a research published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, now in care of the Smith...

The routine consists in working, spending, looking like, an waiting for… the next month.   All photographs by Estany Tineo for FACTORTIERRA.    SULLANA, Peru – So near, so far. The towns of Upper Chira Valley’s left bank stand just 20 minutes away Sullana City , and it seems a world aside. So near, so far. The people hold very god TV’s, sound systems, freezers, but what hardly could be found in a house is running water, or, at least, a latrine that guarantees the excrement won’t be anywhere.   So near, so far. Amid the modern furniture, the most houses continue building of pasted mud and mud bricks, so near… so far. The mud is the only one connecting the people of this part of Upper Chira to their ancestors. The archaeologist Daniel Davila , who accompanied us before researching in Malingas Community , suspects tallán people went around looking for agricultural lands, taking Chira River as water source.   The green mantle The archeology is ...