The Sechura Desert is a coastal desert located south of the Piura Region of Peru along the Pacific coast and inland to the foothills of the Andes Mountains. Its extreme aridity is caused by the upwelling of cold coastal waters and subtropical atmospheric subsidence, but it is also subject to occasional flooding during El Niño years. In 1728, the town of Sechura was destroyed by a tsunami and was later rebuilt in its present location. In 1998, runoff from flooding rivers caused the formation of a temporary lake some 145 km (90 mi) long filling the Bayóvar Depression. Short rivers flowing across the desert from the Andes support intensive irrigation-based agriculture.
The SechuraDesert is a coastal desert located south of the Piura Region of Peru along the Pacific coast and inland to the foothills of the Andes Mountains...
Sechura Province in the Piura Region. The city lends its name to the SechuraDesert, which extends south along most of coastal Peru. Crescent dunes lie...
American "false" foxes or zorro. It gets its name for being found in the SechuraDesert in northwestern Peru. It is one of ten extant species of canid endemic...
above the Patagonian Desert Patagonian Desert – the largest desert in the Americas, located in Argentina SechuraDesert – a desert located south of the...
The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching...
more than 150 km west of the Andes, in the middle of a flatland desert, the Sechuradesert. The cerro is a series of small hills (up to 500 m. in elevation)...
applied to the desert in different parts of the coastline. The SechuraDesert is in northern Peru. Southward is the Peruvian coastal desert which becomes...
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation...
The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of...
/səˈhærə/) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world...
The Mojave Desert (/moʊˈhɑːvi, mə-/ moh-HAH-vee, mə-; Mohave: Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Spanish: Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern...
Piura is a city in northwestern Peru located north of the SechuraDesert on the Piura River. It is the capital of the Piura Region and the Piura Province...
California (also known as the California deserts and the California Desert or Deserts or Desert region) are the distinct deserts that each have unique ecosystems...
region. The SechuraDesert, located south of the Piura River, is Peru's largest desert and one of the world's few examples of a tropical desert; it borders...
Valdés Peninsula, Chubut Province Argentina −42 m (−138 ft) 5 Sechura Depression, SechuraDesert, Piura Region Peru −34 m (−112 ft) 6 Georgetown, Guyana Guyana...
sechurae Sechuran fox west-central, northwestern Peru, including the SechuraDesert, and southwestern Ecuador Lycalopex vetulus Hoary fox south-central...
area) tend to be mid-sized, except in low-density areas such as the Sechuradesert and part of the southern coast. All have gained large populations due...
The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum (Turkmen: Garagum, pronounced [ɢɑɾɑˈɢʊm], from gara ("black") and gum ("sand"); Russian: Караку́мы...
puna Central Andean wet puna Deserts and xeric shrublands Atacama DesertSechuraDesert Mouth of the Amazon River, Atlantic Ocean Belém, Brazil, 24 m, annual...
The Chihuahuan Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the...
site of San José de Moro, located close to the town of Chepen, in the SechuraDesert of the Jequetepeque Valley, in La Libertad Region, Peru. Chimu Empire...
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana...
1900) SechuraDesert in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru Size: 50–78 cm (20–31 in) long, plus 27–34 cm (11–13 in) tail Habitat: Forest, desert, grassland...
northwestern Peru. This small mangrove site is at the northern tip of the SechuraDesert. The climate is normally semi-arid (under 100 mm/year of precipitation)...
Global Information