Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — Queer River In Peru. [ARTICLE]

Queer River In Peru.

In the long coastal desert of Peru, which is 2,000 miles in length, but only 120 miles broad at its widest, part, the rivers, Major A. F. Pears says, disappear in the dry season and begin to flow again in February or March when rain falls In the Cordilleras. One of the most important of these rivers is the Piura. the return of whose waters is welcomed with great rejoicing by the inhabitants of its banks. About the time when “the coming of the river” is expected, eager inquiries as to the progress of the water are put to all persons who chance to come from the head of the valley, and when the water approaches the town of Piura processions go out to meet it and escort its first trickling stream down the dry river bed with music and fireworks. At the outskirts of the city thousands of people greet its arrival.