Tambo Grande

Tambogrande is a small town in the Piura Province of the Piura Region in northwestern Peru. It was one of many small towns chosen as a site for mining development during the mining boom of 1999, and it achieved prominence for successfully opposing the Manhattan Minerals mining development in the area. The town has access to water and lies near the port of Paita, and its main industry is the production of lemons and mangoes on the fertile land around it, producing almost 40 percent of the lemons grown in Peru and employing 65 percent of the population in agriculture. In 1996 the Canadian company Manhattan Minerals bought the mineral rights below the town and found a large copper and gold deposit, which it sought to exploit, a plan that would have required the displacement of thousands of people.