http://enperublog.com/2006/11/06/pisaq-the-market-town/ All you could ever want to know about Peru Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://enperublog.com/2006/11/06/pisaq-the-market-town/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:27:06 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=322#comment-42 […] Returning to Peru I discovered the rainy season has certainly arrived. Floods, tens of missing people and a handful of dead were reported as heavy rains from the Amazon slammed into the Andes. This regular event, known in some parts as the Bolivian Winter, happens each year and brings the high Andes its only source of rain. Further down however towns and their people are washed away in mudslides and floods as rivers break there banks. Bridges and roads, that took the entire year to rebuild from the same disaster the year before are again destroyed. The town of San Ramón, Chanchamayo, that I spent a week in last year suffered badly with 15 missing and 8 dead, most of the town was underwater and vast parts destroyed. The department of San Martín has been flooded for a while now and in the Sacred Valley landslides threaten to bury the town of Calca near Pisaq. […]

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