Talk:Department of Piura

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Piura is known all over for the following facts:

1- "The First Spanish Official Settlement in South America 1532"

2- "The Land Situated Between The Desert and the Tropics"

3- "The Land of The Tondero Rythm and Cumanana Songs"

4- "The Land of the Seco de Chavelo" (Piuran Official Dish)

5- "The Land of Miguel Grau"

Piura shows itself as a proud patriotic peruvian city in the northern borders of the peruvian republic. Situated at about the range where the two "Niño" (warm current) and "Humboldt" (cold current) meet,exactly off the shores of the southern Sechura Province 5-6°.

This is why Piura has both a desert and tropical ambiance to its coastal caracteristics,wich makes it unique in the world. In this land u will find: large and brightly "white-creamy" colored sand dunes held by carrob trees (southern regions),savannas and woody tropical dry forests all over (such as the ones found in central India or Africa),tropical river valles like "Chira" or "Piura" (filled with rice and coconut fields) that flow into mangroove wetlands; and moonish mysitical nights and brightly blue skies with a tropical sun that hits u even in the shadow. All these caracteristics intermingles together in one.

If thats not enough, Piura also offers "Mountains and Sierra" climates with beutiful lakes like "Huaringas" plus valleyes (Ayabaca and Huancabamba)that lay at both sides of high "Amazon Jungles" deserts and "tropical savannas".

Piura also offers beutiful blueish-torquoise colored beaches famous for their beutiful scenary and waves like Mancora or Colan. Since they are affected by both warm and cold currents, the temperature of the water anges from 26-27 C° during the summer seasons Dec-April and a cooler20-22 C° during the winter-autum-spring seasons. Piura offers a great viarety of currents, waves and scenes of beaches.

The coastal weather is "tropical and dry" or savanna weather that has an average temperature of about 25 C° (hotter as u go futher inland into the city and forests. Piuran winters "May to August" offer us dry-warm weathers with cool nights at about 16 C° and between 25-28 C° during the day time. Summers are extreamly hot, more humid and have rainy days "Dec to April". Summer temperatures range from 25 C° during the nights and can reach or some times go over the 40 C° mark during the day (1.00-3.00 pm).

El "Niño Phenomenom" has been piuran old friend (the name of this phenomenom was invented by fishermen of the Paita port) for many years and has become part of the popular folklore of its inhabitants which know what an "errant" life is like; the capital was moved various times do to either extreame rain and extreame droughts.

Piura a land of monsoon like mentality is also a land of vibrant and extreme mestizo culture. Piura offers history that goes back to the pre inca tribles called "Tacllanes": inhabitants of caribean origin that arrived thousands of years ago, the "Vicus" culture born from the mix of these and the "Mochicas" of Lambayeque. The post inca era comes with the coming of the "Spanish" in 1532, an era that cannot over look the many pirate attacks (looking for pearls); the adition of "Gypsy" people (roma, romani) or "Piajeno" cowboys that arrived as spanishmen and also, african slaves that came from madagascar nickenamed by the people as "Mangaches". Yes, out of this mixture and additional ingredients of migrations hails the Piurano people and culture.

Nothern Peruvians and Piuranos, whom call themselves "Churres" (word for boy of Piura and Lambayeque) have beutiful singin-like accents similar to the ones of northern Mexico; and as basically all peruvians, all are known for their picaresque attitude towards life, poverty and their troubles. Men show a macho attitude yet sweat and hospitle towards "forsteros" (knewcomers). An attitude always present and mingled along a witty sense of humor. Piuranos are keen to eat and drink well, especially hot "Cebiches" and "Pasaos al Agua". Women are abviously extreamly coquet (as in most latin ameican countries) yet greater cooks, Peru is withouth a doubt a place to eat well and plenty.

The "Piajeno" cowboys or people of Morropon and Catacaos are famous for their "Tondero" rythms and "Cumanana Songs", silver "filgranas" or silver earings that resemble the typical piuran mestizo and his love for "Caballos de Paso" and ofcourse, "Cock Fights" (by the way Perú has the largest and most agressive). Piuranos and "Piajenos" will sing along the "guitarr and cajón" with passion during processions like of the "Cristo de Ayabaca" or every time they leave their donkeys (traditional transportation source in Piura) to rest away from the sun into the shades of "carrob tree" and enjoy tondero rythm music, along a drink of what they call "Poto the Chicha" (alcholic drink) and fisnish off with a flavoured dry-stew of "Seco de Chavelo".

Piura not only offers beach weather all year round (Colan, Panic Point and Mancora), adventure (Tropical-Dry Forests of Amotape, Huaringas, nature (Valles of Sullana-Chira and Morropon), great food but also beutiful warm people whom you´ll remember every time you listen to a tondero

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Facts about Piura
The Facts about Piura section should be distributed merged into relevant sections of the article rather than a group of unrelated facts thrown in one section. RJFJR 16:49, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

The following facts remain that are not in the article.

3- Piura is the land of "Miguel Grau" one of Perú's national heroes

6- Piura is the Southernmost Region of the Pacific to hold mangroves, the "Manglares de Vice" in the Sechura Province

8- "Cabo Blanco" a Beach in Talara Province, inspired Ernest Hemingway to write The Old Man and The Sea

9- "The Largest Black Marlin" was captured in Cabo Blanco Beach

I removed the fact sections since the other items had been distributed. RJFJR 19:27, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

out of date
The second paragraph of the intro says: "a referendum will be held on October 30, 2005". We need to find out what the outcome was and add it to the article. RJFJR 14:56, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I found a statement at the US state department's web site that the referendum failed, which is good enough for me. I added a ref tag for it. (but I tagged the article as needing more references). RJFJR 19:06, 25 September 2007 (UTC)