La Barranca is located just north of a river that comes down from the Cajamarca area. On the other side of the river mouth, about a 5 minute walk along the beach, is another little town called La Boca del Rio. It's smaller, more serene and a little nicer than La Barranca and is in the process of having a hotel-club-restaurant complex built in it. The buildings are up and functioning and the road is under construction. Next they will bring power lines to the town.

I went to La Boca del Rio with Roger, a peruvian who has been living in New Jersey working in real estate. He's planning on building a similar club-hotel-restaurant complex in one of the towns in the area. He was very impressed with what was happening at La Boca, and even more impressed with how cheap the land was; only 3 soles/sq. meter which is something like 30 cents/sq. foot. It's not surprising that people are developing land that is so beautiful and so inexpensive to buy. So far it doesn't seem to be hurting the small but successful fishing economy in the area.