Climate in Piura

a meeting that occurs on the south coast of the department, height Sechura Bay. This phenomenon makes the sea temperature is variant and fluctuate Piura at 18 and 23 ° C during the winter and spring months, and between 23 and 27 ° C during the summer (sometimes in the fall with the extent of summer). The annual average humidity is 66%, the annual average atmospheric pressure of 1008.5 hPa winds while pursuing a south direction with an average speed of 3 m / s. Rainfall also show variations. On the coast generally low within 100 and 500 meters above sea level in this part ranging between 10 and 200 mm, between 500 and 1500 m, rainfall can be between 200 and 800 mm and the area located above 1500 m the average rainfall is 1,550 mm.

The low humidity of the region set the region as a territory mostly dry. Rainfall is concentrated mostly in the highlands, while in the great plain the only major water sources are seasonal rivers of the north-the Chira and Piura, while in the southern half of the wide plain piurana stands the extensive Sechura Desert is covered by herbaceous vegetation.

Rivers Piura and Chira Huancambamba, are the most important of Piura. Over the course of the latter, has been built Poechos reservoir with a capacity of one billion cubic meters of water to irrigate large areas of the coast of Piura. Quiroz River, a tributary of the Piura River feeds the huge dam of San Lorenzo and Huancabamba waters in the Sierra, activate the turbines of a hydroelectric plant that supplies energy to the region