Introducation of Sullana

Sullana is the name of the capital of the Sullana Province, in the north-western coastal plains of Peru on the Chira valley.Sullana, a province of the Piura Region, located on the north coast of the country, with an extension of 5,423.6 km2, at a height of 59 meters above sea level, and a population of 234,562, has a semi-tropical desert climate and an average temperature of 20° Celsius, varying between 13 °C in winter and 37°C in summer. Its capital, the city by the same name, is 38 km north of the capital of the Region, in the beautiful valley of the Chira, bathed by the river with this name.

The city of Sullana has good paved access roads, used permanently by bus services, from and towards the south, north and interior of the province. The fastest access option is taking a commercial flight from Lima to the city of Piura, followed by an approximately 45-minute car trip. If you take the Pan American Highway north from Sullana, you can get to the Tumbes Region in three hours, whereas taking it south will get you to the Lambayeque Region in three and a half hours approximately, showing the excellence of its location.

Since time immemorial, the Chira valley has been an important farming area, in which the Tallanes, an ethnos with a matriarchal system, settled. Over the years it was successively invaded by the Mochicas, the Chimu, and finally by the Incas. This was the area chosen by the Spaniards to found their first city in this part of the Americas. It was called San Miguel de Tangarara (founded on July 15, 1532); after the foundation, the Spaniards changed the native farming system, creating the repartimientos and encomiendas.

Late in the 18th century, on July 8, 1783, giving it the name of “El Principe” (The Prince), Bishop Baltazar Jaime Martinez de Companon y Bufanda founded the city of Sullana. In the Colony, the northern area of the country was important due to the presence of the port of Paita (to which Sullana belonged), as well as its intense trading activity, this being a key factor in its development. In the early 20th century, Sullana was one of the most important and productive areas of the province of Paita, achieving the status of Province thanks to its population growth and economic and urban development on November 4, 1911.