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1/11.- La Herradura
I spent four years of my childhood in Peru. From 1974-1976 I had been
living in Piura, 1050 km north of Lima and from 1979-1981
in Lima. I left Peru on 5 of July of 1981. After 25 years, finally
all the conditions were met to go back! Another reason to return now:
25th aniversary of the graduation-one week of different activities and events
organized by my ex classmates and by the college Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Lima.
I came to Lima on 14 of April of 2006. In the night hours,
the airplain approached Lima, flying above millions of city
lights. We descended at aeropuerto Jorge Chavez at 10 P.M. Neven
Berber picked me up at the airport and took me to his family house in
Barranco.
Next day, my first wish was to see La Herradura, the Lima's
beach where I spent almost the
entire summer of 1980. I couldn't believe
what I saw! Here is the story:
For all those who enjoyed hot sands and refreshing waves of La
Herradura this must be a nightmare. Beginning 1990s, sideparts
of the southern hill were dinamited in order
to
build a road which would connect
Chorrillos
with
La Chira.
The
result?
Six hundreds tons of rocks fell into the sea which changed the
direction of the sea
stream
and decreased the hight of the waves.
This
provoked that the sedimentation of the sand changed its rout
from
south to north and sand stayed south. The waves pushed the rocks
to the beach
and now, after one decade, the sea consumed a large part of the
beach.
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