Rahuar Farm

Peru / Ancash / Huaraz / Pira_Cajamarquilla Drive

mountain, park, village, mine

This is a beautiful Andean place over twenty-five years ago is being polluted by a mine that is operating without caring for the environment, and settled in an illegal manner, without payment to the owners or their land or the damages that are now several million dollars. The most serious is that their waste are carring by rain into the valley of Casma, poisoned with cyanide, mercury and other toxics to all the people of this valley. Even the Pacific Ocean.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahuar_Farm

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Coordinates: 9°35'32"S 77°43'43"W

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