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One year later, FACTORTIERRA undisclosed its internal reports about the popular consultation of Piura Andes in September 2007, and it found some details have not solved yet.   By Liliana Alzamora Flores & Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   AYABACA, Peru – What difficult is logging on the Internet at this place! There are long lines! Some journalists booked the PC’s for hours.   Saturday, September 15th, 2007 – There was a press conference at 19:00 local time, in Casa del Campesino. The briefing was directed by Mario tabra who presented some slides, Farmers Patrol’s leader Magdiel Carrión, the attorney quique Rodríguez . They answered the questions much objective proving to be well informed.   They denounced that Peru’s Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo distorted the information. Attorney Rodríguez reported that Alejandro Eguren Anselmi, brother of Piura and Tumbes Archbishop, were not already a Minera Majaz’s manager, but he has bought over than 50% of shares in ot...

Don’t worry who is going to take you but where you want to take to.   This is a tip that is going to call your attention, particularily if you come to Piura without a clear agenda, or maybe a destination in mind but not booked via a travel agency. It’s about the transportation service offered by a responsable, kind dude who is available to empower your visit into an experience that, as he promises, you will repeat soon and refer him to all your contacts. Andres Facundo (canchaqué, May 23rd, 1997), who used to be called just by his lastname – Facundo, can drive virtually any stuff engine by a motor, but he also has a great passion for travelling, so everytime he can, he take his own trails. Then, he asked himself what would happen if that affection can be turned a job. When he convinced himself he could indeed, he contacted FACTORTIERRA and asked if we knew interested people in taking his services.   Facundo is a certified driver who whors with on-demand destinations...

By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo AYABACA, Peru – What are the conditions that the Aypate [pronounce Iappahteh] Archaeological Complex offers to receive the tourism? None at the moment because the Inca-origin building is not officially open for the tourism yet, although it does receive visitors who are allowed to enter for free under strict conditions like to keep clean the whole circled area, not to vandalize the building, and not to put on the walls, as it happened before. At the moment, Peru’s Ministry of Culture  and Lagunas de Canly Community are doing maintenance works like weeding, but it still remains to continue the restoration of monolithic walls those could be built after 1470 AD, when the armny commanded by emperor Túpac Inca Yupanqui devastated the settlement of Ayawaka tribe as he expanded the Tawantinsooyo Empire toward the north, what are the highlands of actual Ecuador. It is supposed that Aypate was for the Ayawakas as their main administrative, ...

TAMBOGRANDE, Peru – Members of Lebanon Arab Government’s Social Affairs Ministry  got to quebrada Parales Town for meet the good practice on feeding service management brought by Peru’s Development and Social Inclusion Ministry (MIDIS for its acronyme in Spanish) throught Qali Warma National Programme of School Feeding, at the 15105 La Quebrada School. The so-called “successful experience” is developed  because of the coordinated work that the School Feeding Committee (CAE for its acronyme in Spanish), the community, and the local authorities are doing. The visit was held in the frame of a internship for exchanging experience and knowledge  on social programmes between Peru and Lebanon as part of the South-South Triangular Project from the international cooperation for showing up the purpose of the programme as well as  its implementation processes from the selection of the school’s menu, food buying, and the phases of the feeding service, that is exec...

LA ARENA, Peru – Memberrs of the Economic and Social Planning Technical Secretary of Paraguay Republic arrived to Ricardo Palma School for learning the successful experience of feeding service management  brought by Midis Qali Warma to 871 high-school students. The visit was made as frame of the Territorial Articulation and Management of Social Programmes internship inside the Peru-Paraguay Bilateral Project, and it was purposed to know the processes of articulation implemented by the School Feeding Committee, through it was gotten the students to have a harmlessness, tasty, and nutritive breakfast and lunch, according to the guidelines directed by the social programme. The school has a kitchen and an exclusive use warehouse. With the contribution of the local government and the educational community, it was purchased the kitchen and the household. Also, the persons in charge of the preparation, distribution, and serving of meals have been trained in good practice o...

Everybody was chasing Vargas Llosa but he seemed to chase another remarkable Piura-native man.   By Roberto Saavedra (special to FACTORTIERRA).   CHULUCANAS, Peru – Imagine that somebody knocks on your door in a shiny morning, you open it and… what a surprise! Mister Fernando Barranzuela? It’s not another guy. It’s about Mario Vargas Llosa , the reknown Peruvian writer, 2010 Nobel Award of Literature. Although the poet Fernando Barranzuela used to had visits of many people, this one marked a before and an after.   The missing land Piura is not a strange land for the novelist, playright, essayist, journalist, and even actor. He spent his childhood and teenage there. He studied at San Miguel School, wrote and produced his first theater play, knew that his father –whom he belief to be died—lived, learned to make love.   Vargas Llosa arrived on Monday, March 5 th , 2012, and had two homages, one at the campus of Piura National University and another else at Merino Squ...

A trip to the Pre-Hispanic past, to the top of a mountain, and to the foot of a cascade.   Sunset from the top of Guayanay Mount. | All photographs provided by Andrés Facundo , distributed by FACTORTIERRA.   HUANCABAMBA, Peru – If you are in Piura City and you have a full free day, rather free at the afternoon and the following morning, here you have a tour that will bring you to the Pre-Hispanic past, raise to the top of a mountain, drown into the water flowing inside out of it.   It’s just three hours by car from Piura City (146 km or 91 miles to the east). It’s accessible around the year, although the best season is between May and October . Its difficulty levels are multiples so it easily fits to your age and current physical condition. In addition, it connects you to other very popular local attractions.   The circuit extends between Districts Canchaqué and san Miguel de El Faiqué , between 1100 meters (3600 feet) and 1270 meters (4170 feet) ...