Former Petroleum Lobitos Camp: An Industrial Heritage in agony 
The first cinema in South America, built in the camp Lobitos.
In October 2008, the National Institute of Culture, through Executive Resolution No. 1453/INC National monuments declared as members of the National Cultural Heritage to the church Sacred Heart of Jesus and the building administrative offices of the former camp Lobitos oil, located in the district of the same name, province Talara, Piura.
However, this statement came a little late. In fact these buildings, built of valuable Douglas fir, with a few houses, the wharf and the desalination plant, were all that was saved from a systematic dismantling, complained loudly, but on deaf ears.
The story begins in early 1900 with the establishment of the oil industry in the area. It was the American company Lobitos Oilfields Limited, which set up camp here to house leaders and workers of the plant. To this end, brought wooden houses and joined buildings, built a desalination plant and a church, and even installed the first cionema in South America.
But in 1968, with the expulsion of the International Petroleum Company, the camp was at the hands of the Peruvian State. Over the years this has happened to the Ministry of Defense made it a peaceful and heavenly army barracks. The residents of the fishing village of Lobitos say that here began the agony of this invaluable industrial heritage. The military began to disassemble the housing, movies, and sell wood and irons. So these impostantes disappeared forever testimony of the oil industry in Peru.
authorities, the local media and even some members of Congress took the case and reported the robbery and the attack on our heritage, but the facts remained committed. Currently, the camp is just his church, a demolished almost spring, the remains of the desalination plant and a few houses standing.
Even with resolution in hand, still is pending to preserve what little is left and convent Lobitos part of large industrial tourist circuit of northern Peru.
Part of the camp with houses built with oregon pine.
From 28 September to 1 October 2011 made the XIII International Conference on Industrial Heritage in Gijón (Asturias, Spain), organized by INCUNA, non-profit organization with extensive experience and recognition within the field industrial and cultural heritage. Event has the support of various public and private institutions. 
