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Canchaqué suffered again from a slide of mud and rocks during rains in 2023.     All the footage: © Juan Francisco Facundo Silva .   CANCHAQUÉ, Peru— “Look how it left!,” exclaims Juan Francisco Facundo Silva, a computation technician and producer of a streaming music-TV show, as he saw the debris and the print of a slide of mud and rocks happened just before midnight, March 15 th , 2023.   Juan, artistically known as Facundo, arrived three days later to see how his remaining family was doing in Canchaqué Town , 91 miles by road from Piura City – he couldn’t hold on the sadness despite he tried to manage it by recording with his mobile the clips we share here.   Collating a preliminary report by Peru’s National Institute of Civil Defense and testimonies of eyewitnesses gathered by FACTORTIERRA, on March 15 th , 2023, 23:15 PET (0415 UTC, March 16 th , 2023), Púsmalca Valley, where Canchaqué Town is located, had “intense rains.”   Some...

A communitarian rural tourism project in the entrance of Huancabamba Valley.  By Ronald Benites Rangel .  Photos by Emmanuel Fernández Cardoza and Éricka Ramírez Guerrero .  SONDORILLO, Peru - On the length between the place known as Cruz Blanca, the point where the road from Piura to Huancabamba reaches its top altitude, and the so-called Walking City , the mountain landscape is made for falling in love. What or who? It does not matter - just fall in love. With that landscape charming the eye, it will be difficult we realize Cascapampa is about 40 km or 25 miles before arriving into Huancabamba City and 25 km or 16 miles after climbing up from Canchaque . This is a community dedicated to agriculture and cattle, about 170 km or 106 miles away the east of Piura City by car. Cascapampa (probably from Quechuan 'sharp plain')  is on the E ast slope of Andean Western Range, 3180 meters or 10430 feet altitude, forming part of the Huancabamba River's ...

It looks like an enormous black egg embeded on the mountain slope. By Nelson Peñaherrera . Photos by Estany Tineo .   Cambia a español. SAPILLICA , Peru – “No, sir, the truck to Coletas departures tomorrow at five in the morning and gets back in the afternoon, assures us the driver of a motorcycle used as a taxi throough the tortuos dusty ways around this town. It is obvious that Juan, the driver, is trying to convince me for hiring the service.   It’s Thursday afternoon and since we have arrived to organize a minimum recognition logistics of the petroglyph our partner Marco Paulini reported last July , we’ve just found supporting promises but very few options for visiting the monolyth which highlights a spiral trace carved on basaltic rock. “ Are you going to The Devils’ Rock? That rock is bad! Pregnant women don’t pass over there,” a sixty-year-old lady warns me when she listens to my negotiation process with Juan. I take a little time to chat, hustle our producer ...

At least during three years, touristic guides and businesspersons warned there would be a collapse.     LÚYA, Peru – In 1998, Peruvian Government declared the archaeological complex of Kuélap as cultural patrimony. The touristic reviews describe it like an architectural jewel built by the ancient Chachapoya people , a little confederation of communities settled down in the steepest, wildest lands between Marañón River to the west and Huallaga River to the east. In Peru dimensions, it’s about the Upper Jungle or Rupa-Rupa eco-region – the mountain rain forest, actually, already in Amazon Basin .   The chahchapoya or shacshapooyo (fog’s people, in English) flourished between 900 and 1470 AD extending between the south of Amazonas Department , all the western half of san Martín Department, and the eastern side of La Libertad Department. They were contemporary of the Incas what conquered them during the reign of Tupac Inca Yupanqi who started the expansion of ...