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Un evento de magnitud 6,1 sacudió todo el departamento de Piura, y esto es lo que la ciencia sabe hasta el momento.   Por Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   Terremoto Perú 6.1° (Sullana) 30 de julio de 2021 Recopilación / Earthquake Terremoto - YouTube   SOJO, Piura – El mediodía del 30 de julio de 2021 iba a ser otro cualquiera de invierno con sol radiante. Alguna gente estaba dentro de sus casas viendo el desfile militar por Fiestas Patrias que, debido a la pandemia de la Covid-19, debió desarrollarse en una instalación militar cerrada en la ciudad de Lima. Justo diez minutos después del cenit (1710 GMT), la tierra bajo la capital del distrito de Miguel Checa , provincia de Sullana , se sacudió sin sentido y violentamente.   En un punto a 34 km debajo de la superficie de roca, arena y arcilla pulverizada, dos enormes masas de tierra a presión, quizás de 1 km de grosor, chocaron entre sí e iniciaron una serie de eventos localizados en un tramo que corre ...

The Pre-Columbian history in and around the second largest city of Piura urges a bigger investigation.  All photographs by César Rivas , special to FACTORTIERRA SULLANA, Peru - Locals in Upper Chira Valley call them "lomas" (hills in English)  and their houses are around them. Inclusive, one of them is the source for making adobes or unbaked bricks in Chalacalá Baja Town. But at least around 550 years ago, they seemed to be funerary monts. "There are at least about 30 huacas like those between Sullana [City] and  La Peña," Archaeologist Daniel Dávila Manrique explains. We have already shared with him the experience of identifying and verifying evidences of this kind in

La historia precolombina alrededor y en la segunda ciudad más grande de Piura urge mayor investigación.  Todas las fotos por César Rivas , especial para FACTORTIERRA SULLANA, Piura – Los pobladores del Alto Chira las llaman "lomas" y sus casas las rodean; incluso, una de ellas es la fuente de barro para fabricar adobes o ladrillos sin cocer en Chalacalá Baja. Pero por lo menos hace unos 550 años, parecían ser montículos funerarios. "Hay unas 30 huacas como esas entre [la ciudad de] Sullana y La Peña", explica el arqueólogo Daniel Dávila Manrique , con quien ya hemos compartido la experiencia de identificar y verificar evidencias de esta naturaleza en

A 6.1 magnitude event shook the whole Piura Department, and this is what the science knows up to now.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   Peru is SHAKING! Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake in Sullana, Peru - YouTube   SOJO, Peru – On July 30 th , 2021, noon, it was goin to be another winter-else, sunshine. Some people were inside their homes watching the Peru’s Bicentennial military parade that, due to Covid-19 pandemic, might have in a closed military facility at Lima City. Just ten minutes after the zenith (1710 GMT), the land under the capital of Miguel Checa District , Sullana Province , shook without a sense and violently.   At a spot, 25 miles under the surface of rock, sand, and pulverized clay, two huge pressing landmasses, maybe 3300 feet thickness, shocked one each other and started a list of focused events in a portion running from  Marcavelica District , just the north of Miguel Checa, and going to the border of provinces Sullana and Piura, at ...

The agricultural-exporting present  and a highly possible archaeological past are its two main assets, at the moment. All photographs by Ángelo Azabache , distributed by FACTORTIERRA   SULLANA, Peru - In the place where the towns of West sullana and Jíbito are up to join, but more aligned near Chira River , it is located La Capilla, the site where a same-named big estate was controlled from, in which farms the Bishop Baltazar Jaime Martínez d Compañón y Bujanda gota gifted property to founding Santísima Trinidad de La Punta Village, on July 8th, 1783, the coretown of Sullana Metropolitan Area the second largest of Piura Region. Then, La Capilla belonged to Del Castillo Family and seemed to enlarge across  the space that cities of Sullana and Bellavista occupy today, although the official history says the estate which terrain the town was founded, was called La Punta (The Point, in English) what might explain its initial name, however its founder tried to name...