DOCUMENTAL PECHP: 51 AÑOS

[Music] The project responds to a widespread demand from the region's population at that time, as water needs in the Bajo Piedras Valley were extremely difficult. There was an abundance of water in the Tirah Valley because the Chira River, before the infrastructure works existed, meant abundant flows during major floods. This abundance of water actually caused

damage to the agricultural areas of the Tirah Valley, while the Bajo Piura Valley did not have this benefit because its water supply depended on rainfall. During periods of drought, it languished due to the lack of this resource. With the project, this situation was regulated, making it possible to provide a permanent water supply to

the Chira-Piura valleys in a sustainable manner, striving to meet the fundamental food needs of the entire agricultural population and the entire population of the region living

in northern Peru. For 51 years, the Chira-Piura Special Project has operated and regulated the water it captures from the Chira River, 30 km upstream from the city of Sullana, through a complex system. The hydraulic system that carries water to the valleys of the middle and lower Piura and Chira rivers [Music] In 1969,

Oscar Herrera Rambla Garavito was mayor of Sullana. His daughter, Mrs. Delia Herrera Rambla, tells us about the experience that led her father to put the idea of ​​a new reservoir for the Chira Valley on the agenda. At that time, the whole issue of stonework was being done to take the water from the Chira

to the Piura River because we diverted the main flow of the river, which now has very little water. They knew that in their construction project, they wanted to take the water from the Chira to Piura through a simple canal, and by doing this, they were going to completely damage the agriculture of the