This 500 years old carob tree is located in the ecuatorial dry forest of the Pacific tropical desert in Lambayeque, Peru.
The local population, decendants of the ancient Sican culture, from which the name of the Algarrobo tree comes from, attribute mystical religious values to it because of its antiquity and impressive appearance. And they cross themselves when passing by it.
Its branches, the texture of its bark and its colors form phantasmagoric figures that make the imagination of the spectator fly. Animals, waves of the sea, human figures or simple brush strokes of a painter, all interwined with each other and in continuous movement, are visualized in it.
This ilusion of the senses, together with the reality of the new shoots ont its thin branches exposed to the sun... tell us that the Millennial tree still breathes...
Carob tree (Prosopis pallida).