Reducing mercury pollution by training Peruvian artisanal .
· 2 (% of the country's total surface) (Torres, 1998). In 2009, % of the population in the Department of Piura was living below the national poverty line and in 2010 this increased to % (La Voz del Desierto, 2011).The Department of Piura has 8 Provinces ().Ayabaca Province near Ecuador, where a large contingent of artisanal miners is .