Some talk about taxi´s

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In Tumbes and presumably most of Peru, car ownership is unusual if not rare in most cases.

If its too far or you´re too lazy to walk, you catch a taxi or a mototaxi.

Taxis seem to be any car that can still move. Most are adequate, some are good and a few are almost dangerously bad.
To take a trip from Victoria´s house (a suburb refered to as poyango but actually named andres araujo moran) to tumbes takes maybe 10 minutes and costs 1 sol per passenger (about 40c each).

To take special trips, longer distances or late at night, it gets more expensive. It might cost 10 to 20 sol for the 1/2 hr trip to peurto pìzarro or 10 sol to get home after a night out for example.

Mototaxis (motos) are purpose built 3 wheeled motorbikes with a small 3 seater passenger compartment. Generally only used for relatively short trips, they cost 1 sol whether you travel a couple of blocks or virtually to the other side of town. I´ve actually seen one or two of these pimped up with lights and a booming stereo system, which kind of seems weird somehow and definately crimps my need for headroom.

I have also seen mototaxis carrying some pretty impressive and odd things including about 15 live chickens, 3 44 gallon drums, about 20 5 metre pieces of rebar for concrete reinforcement (dragging along on the road behind the moto) and one with no less than 8 people plus the driver.

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Photos

Mototaxis
More common than cockroaches it seems sometimes

Taxis are any random vehicle
This is the worst taxi I´ve ridden in so far.
Judicious application of duct tape would double the value of the vehicle