1. PLANTS
ANIMALS The major plant
formations Desert
DESERT
Red fox, skunk, Puma,
bobcat.
Mice: arrozalero de
Pacific are the
grasslands, tilansiales, PACIFIC
Zúñiga, orejón Andes.
gallery forests, coastal by: Mariana
hills and other aquatic
Artiodactyla: Guanaco,
environments such as
Ortiz 6D
white-tailed deer.
cattails and rushes. • typical animals
Herons: small white,
• typical plants
large white blue
tricolor. • typical climate
2. ECOSYSTEM HYDROLOGY TEMPERATURE
The region is cut by more than 40
Is characterized by extreme water-poor rivers whose Subtropical arid climate prevails,
aridity, it found the world's watersheds are located in the it is warm, moist air is absent
driest climate, especially in high Andes, receiving no although rainy, with average
tributaries in the coastal region, annual rainfall of less than 150
the Atacama Desert. Despite
and wiping many of them before mm and mean annual
this aridity, found from the temperatures between 17-19 ° C,
province of Sechura in Piura reaching the sea. There are also
many dry riverbeds, water only although in the Sechura desert in
and Lambayeque East, on the when driving in the high rain fall Piura, can be registered
east by the sea and exceptionally high or when it maximum of 40 ° C.
mountainous steppe yunga of rains on the coast, very rare
Peru, and the Puna de phenomenon. Are frequent
Atacama in Chile, and to the lagoons and marshes, especially
south with the Central Valley near shore marine, brackish and
the north-central Chile. many of them with abundant
aquatic vegetation.
