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A sample that justifies to approve Tropical Pacific Sea Zone. By Alberto Navarro and FACTORTIERRA . Photos by Alberto Navarro .  

Its strategic location at the Eastern Pacific turns it into a peculiar shelter.  Photographs by Giuseppe Aguinaga . PAITA, Peru - It seems to be a stone-&-sand berg from La Islilla Beach, a huge natural breakwater keeping a fishers cove on the southwestern side of La Silla de Paita (The Paita's Chair, approximately 350 meters or 1150 feet altitude). However, it is a natural milestone of two big marine ecosystems for the science. Foca Island is far the South-American continent just 800 meters or half a mile to 1 kilometer or 0,6 miles of water, and according to the book Piura, Áreas prioritarias para la conservación de la biodiversidad (Piura - Priority Areas For Conserving the Biodiversity), edited by Nature and Culture International (NCI) in 2014,  is an extension of the Peruvian desert , an arid land reaching to penetrate into Chile toward the south, and the half of Tumbes Region at the north. It is about 92 hectares or 227 acres, what allow it to con...

By air, sea, and land, big and small have punished Colán to die.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   COLÁN, Peru – Before Máncora left it down to a second place –that is also losing—, this one was the spa of Piura for instance. Now, it is condemned to go degrading, droned by corporate and communitarian interests that can sweep centuria of tradition, like the moment they wounded the cliff that keeps it.   La Esmeralda de Colán, better simply known as Colán , is exposed to its water pollution and the waves that threaten the building close to(not mentioning over)the rim. A natural phenomenon is the killer that condemns it to a slow death.   The confluence of Humboldt and El Niño Currents also carry on died animals that get stranded on the rims: porpoises, sea lions, and dolphins have been reported at the zone. Miguel Alarcón Ato, president of La Esmeralda’s Association of Residents and Owners, suspects that the combination of industrial sewerage from Paita City to th...

This is the last place in South America to enjoy a sunset.       Photographs by Ethniko Negritos .   LA BREA, Peru – The most occidental mainland in South America is in Piura Department . It’s easy to see in a map , but the sensation is other on the field. It’s a great natural landscape system with a view to the enormous Pacific Ocean .   If you get to this place, as much as you get to the edge, you’ll be the one among the other people across south America who gets more into the sea… not needing to get into the water, not needing to get out the continent, or going to an island, aboarding a ship either.   The point was named Balconés in Spanish because the promontory seems to be a set of shelves or balconies viewing to the sea. Only that in this case, the architect was Nature. Even the full promontory is called La Mesa Mount (Cerro La Mesa), that highlights of the rest of the beach and the own coastal plateau , that is aactually the cont...

The contamination tarnishes the Pearl of Chira.   By Mako Fernández Guerrero , Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo , & Ronald Zevallos Muro . Photographs by Franco Alburqueque .   SULLANA, Peru – The rumor –because no one confirmed the source—ran like spread powder: the second most dangerous city of Peru after Callao. The inexistent tourism vanished, the Sullana-natives  abroad were seen bad, coming to this city from other places equaled to enter a war zone.   Until 2013, the second most important city of Piura, one of the 20 most important ones in Peru (after the 15 th place), concentrated about 150,000 people of 1.7 million who lived across Piura Department , according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (2007). It’s the capital city of Sullana Province and it hosted the half of its population, according to the same source.   Where have the ddiscouraging merit come out from? It was repeated, it was repeated, and even it provocated an emerge...