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...
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List of deserts (redirect from African desert)
largest desert in the Americas, located in Argentina Sechura Desert – a desert located south of the Piura Region of Peru Jalapão – a desert park in Tocantins...
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Sechura Province in the Piura Region. The city gives its name to the Sechura Desert, which extends south along most of coastal Peru. Crescent dunes lie...
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Sechuran fox (redirect from Sechura fox)
American "false" foxes or zorro. It gets its name for being found in the Sechura Desert in northwestern Peru. It is one of ten extant species of canid endemic...
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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...
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more than 150 km west of the Andes, in the middle of a flatland desert, the Sechura desert. The cerro is a series of small hills (up to 500 m. in elevation)...
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Climate of Peru (section Pacific coastal desert)
applied to the desert in different parts of the coastline. The Sechura Desert is in northern Peru. Southward is the Peruvian coastal desert which becomes...
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A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation...
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region. The Sechura Desert, 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...
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Sahara (redirect from Sahara desert)
/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...
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The Mojave Desert (/moʊˈhɑːvi, mə-/ ; Mohave: Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Spanish: Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada...
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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...
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Piura is a city in northwestern Peru located north of the Sechura Desert on the Piura River. It is the capital of the Piura Region and the Piura Province...
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puna Central Andean wet puna Deserts and xeric shrublands Atacama Desert Sechura Desert Mouth of the Amazon River, Atlantic Ocean Belém, Brazil, 24 m, annual...
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Deserts of California (redirect from Desert Region of California)
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...
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area) tend to be mid-sized, except in low-density areas such as the Sechura desert and part of the southern coast. All have gained large populations due...
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Guatemala Paraguana xeric scrub Venezuela San Lucan xeric scrub Mexico Sechura desert Peru Tehuacán Valley matorral Mexico Windward Islands xeric scrub Barbados...
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The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum (Turkmen: Garagum, pronounced [ɢɑɾɑˈɢʊm], from gara ("black") and gum ("sand"); Russian: Караку́мы...
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the Eastern Desert which extends east from the Nile to the Red Sea. The Western Desert is mostly rocky desert, though an area of sandy desert, known as...
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Valdés Peninsula, Chubut Province Argentina −42 m (−138 ft) 5 Sechura Depression, Sechura Desert, Piura Region Peru −34 m (−112 ft) 6 Georgetown, Guyana Guyana...
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The Chihuahuan Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the...
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Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Arabic: برية الخليل, romanized: Bariyah al-Khalil, Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה, romanized: Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in the...
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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...
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24; 25 The Libyan Desert (not to be confused with the Libyan Sahara) is a geographical region filling the northeastern Sahara Desert, from eastern Libya...
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Guatemala Paraguana xeric scrub Venezuela San Lucan xeric scrub Mexico Sechura desert Peru Tehuacán Valley matorral Mexico Windward Islands xeric scrub Barbados...
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sechurae Sechuran fox west-central, northwestern Peru, including the Sechura Desert, and southwestern Ecuador Lycalopex vetulus Hoary fox south-central...
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northwestern Peru. This small mangrove site is at the northern tip of the Sechura Desert. The climate is normally semi-arid (under 100 mm/year of precipitation)...
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site of San José de Moro, located close to the town of Chepen, in the Sechura Desert of the Jequetepeque Valley, in La Libertad Region, Peru. Chimu Empire...
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1900) Sechura Desert 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...
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The Arabian Desert (Arabic: ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة) is a vast desert wilderness in West Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula with...
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