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After three years without precipitations, they came back to smash the same places where a similar episode happened more than a decade ago.     A heavy rain falling over Sapillica Town, Upper Chipillico Valley, Ayabaca Province , on February 21 st , 2023. However, just 0.8 inches of rain fell that day.  (Footage provided by El Tambograndino Noticias )   The most Piura Department, Peru, had moderate to heavy rains between 19 th and 25 th of February, 2023, feeling stronger between 22 nd and 23 rd . It was not a surprising episode. Peru’s National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (Senamhyi, as in Spanish)issued such warnings since the 19 th by tagging orange alertfor coast and highlands of Northern Peru.   Based upon satellite reports consulted by FACTORTIERRA and eyewitnesses on the field, the precipitations smashed mostly on Provinces ayabaca, Huancabamba, and Morropón, the whole crossed by the Andean Range, which had receiving rains interm...

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 ...

It’s a key axis joining agriculture and commerce, until summer rains become it impassable.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   Overload in San Francisco Creek, between Sectors Palominos and Malingas (Tambograndé District) during a rainy summer. (Photos by David Dominguez / El tambograndino Noticias / file).   Tambograndé-Chulucanas Road is a show anytime through the year. The sky can be white, gray, light blue sky with a burning Sun. But on the land, dismissing the black asphalt, all green tones dance in a messy, tender choreography. Officially, the PI-107 way is 27 miles counted from óvalo del Campesino (Farmer’s Circus), Tambograndé City ( Piura Province ), toOrozco Falla Park, Chulucanas City ( Morropón Province ). Many applications calculate the trip takes about 50 minutes as much, of course, if you go on your own transportation. The rest of mortals must be two transshipment at least. The first one in Malingas , 9 miles and 17 minutes tripping. The s...