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Extract from the Paita and Coln Travel Guides: Fifty kilometres northwest of Piura lies its port and closest major settlement,
PAITA
. Set on a small peninsula a little south of the mouth of the Ro Chira, it is Peru's fifth largest port, but is best known to many Peruvians as the former home of
Manuela Saenz
, the tragic mistress of Simn Bolivar during the Wars of Liberation. After the 1828 skirmishes with Colombia (of which Bolivar was dictator), Manuela was ostracized by Peruvian society, dying here in poverty in 1856. Her house (it has a plaque on it) is in the old quarter of town, just up from the petrol station and across from the market, but it is not open to...
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