Talara Province

Talara is a province in the Piura Region, Peru. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Paita Province on the south, the Sullana Province on the east and the Tumbes Region’s Contralmirante Villar Province on the north. Its capital is the port city of Talara.

Attractions

The province has tourist attractions such as the Mancora beach resort, Cabo Blanco beach, Punta Balcones, Parinas Forest, Amotape mountains, a whale fossils deposit, Plataforma del Zocalo Continental, Talara Refinery and the Talara Civic Centre.

Punta Parinas, the westernmost point in mainland South America, is located in the province’s La Brea District.

Climate

The Talara Province has a yearly average temperature of 20 °C.

Political division

The Talara Province is divided into six districts (Spanish: distritos, singular: distrito), each of which is headed by a mayor (alcalde):
El Alto
La Brea
Lobitos
Los Organos
Mancora
Parinas

Introducation of Talara

Talara is a city in the Talara Province and Piura Region of northwestern Peru. It is a port city on the Pacific Ocean. As of 1993, it’s population is 103,200. Because of its oil reserves, and ability to produce aviation fuel, Talara was a major United States air base during World War II. The city still produces 70% of Peruvian petroleum. Talara is also home to a large fishing fleet.

It is difficult to talk about Piura and to show its qualities in just a few lines due to the countless tourist, economical, human and industrial resources that God and nature has blessed our region with. That is why this group of first class young professionals, who are rooted to their homeland and who believe in the value of this wonderful region and in its limitless range of options, achieves a major dream to show Peru and the rest of the world, through this first culture - tourist Web site, the beauty of s land and its people.

Historical Outtline of Talara

Chroniclers do not mention this region in their reports, on the other hand, they mention widely the Chira, Piura and Tumbes valleys, and this because talking about it’s geographical environment, Talara is a vast desert whose dunes go into sea.

During the times of the Colony, by means of native information it became Known the existing of a mine of “Cope tar “where the Spanish went to search it to use it applying it to their ropes and fishing equipment to caulk boats.

For his part Raimondi, remarks “That is Amotape exist asphalt which being mixed with
Clayey sand, looks as masses whose color is nearly chocolate with a light bituminous color and that it flames up and burns with darkened flames, leaving a sandy tisuna”

Just in 1849, a little bit more than century, the first “black gold” prospectors started to arrive, since oil was a vital product for the industrial civilization that was hidden below it’s arid and desert surface. Under the sign of wok and ambition Talara was born as a simple labourers’ quarters, as a camp to transform into what at present is: a city.

Being Antonio Manso de Velasco count of Superunda Viceroy of Peru, The Spanish Royal Crown provided that the oilfields whose value was entirely known by the Spanish became royal inheritance.

As years went by and in 1710, a family named De la Cruz was allowed to run the mine for a century, in other words till 1810.

On making the Viceroyalty into republic, the Peruvian state was the legitimate heir of the mine, which was transferred to Jose Antonio Quintana in September the 28th, 1826 as payment for the credit of tour thousand nine hundred seventy four pesos that Mr. Quintana had lended Ecuador during the independence war.

Later on Mr. Quintana sold the property to Jose de Lama. After Mr. Lama died in 1850 the property was divided into heirs, being the mine and the so-called zone “La Brea” given to Mrs. Josefa de Lama, meanwhile de section called “Parinas” was transfered to widow Mrs. Luisa Godos de Lama.
After wards, t6his mine became Mr. Genaro Helguero’s property who traveled to the United States to hire Eduardo Fowks to bring to the country the necessary machinery and equipments to stars the oil working. (more…)