Talk:Sechura Desert

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Deleteted the follow paragraph: "Rainfall varies from 5 mm/year near the Chilean border to 200 mm/year in the northern coast and near the Andes. " The Sechura dessert does not reach Chile, it ends in Lambayeque near Motupe. Even though the rest of the Peruvian coast is quite arid with rich valleys, it is not considered the Sechura dessert. Thanks Allen
 * Actually, where "it begins and ends" varies with sources. I have seen books claim that the line between the Atacama and the Peruvian deserts is very fine, but if you have a source for your exact location, then please put it forward. The great kawa 13:45, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

The article reads: "Summer (December through March) is warm and sunny with temperatures that average over 24 °C. In summer it ranges from 25º to 38º". Of course the average would be over 24, since 24 is to be below the range, it can never be the average... :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.77.217.220 (talk) 04:08, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Deleted the following line: "The name sechura derives from a culture that developed called the SEC, around the year 400 B.C." It derives from an anonymous edit in 2005. It is unidiomatic, and I can find no support for the claim other than this page which looks like a poor translation. If somebody can verify or find good information about this, please add that back in. Aidan (talk) 07:36, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

This article has a tremendous geographical mistake. This article is redirected from "the nazca desert" where the famous nazca lines are present.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sechura_Desert" which is in fact much further south than the piura region. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.131.172.127 (talk) 03:20, 2 August 2010 (UTC)


 * While the article says that it is going to use the WWF definition of the Sechura for most of the coastal desert, it refers only to indigenous peoples and two cities in the north. Other references need to be included, or a smaller definition needs to be used.  This way it's very confusing. Parkwells (talk) 21:05, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

WWF definition
Removed the following text: The international World Wildlife Fund (WWF) defines the Sechura Desert as the entire stretch of coastal desert from the northwestern tip of Peru to parts of northern Chile, where it meets the Atacama Desert. In a third definition, the National Geographic Society includes part of the coastal desert in southern Peru (near Ica, Peru|Ica) within the Atacama Desert (See graphic map at Atacama Desert.) For the purposes of this article, the entire arid region of the coast of Peru, as defined by the WWF, shall be hereby referenced as the Sechura Desert.

The WWF has apparently changed its definition, lumping the Atacama and Sechura together in one ecoregion, the Atacama in Chile and the Sechura in Peru. Frankly, this arrangement is simpler than trying to force a square, political geography peg into a round, ecological geography hole. Richigi (talk) 15:19, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * But this leaves the article without any explanation of what it means. There are two different maps showing two different areas as the Sechura, without any mention of the difference. There's a picture of the Nazca lines, but they are in the Nazca desert. The Sechura desert is only the wider, northernmost plateau, not the entire coastal desert of Peru. The Sechura desert is obviously part of the same desert continuum, but it is somewhat distinct by being a large flat(ish) and wide plain, unlike the more sloping terrain of the desert south of Sechura desert. Only near Pisco does the desert terrain become wider and relatively flat again. Between those two areas, the desert is on the mountain side, not a flat plain. So the three regions, as shown on the second map, are morphologically distinct.
 * The idea of a Sechura desert along the entire Peruvian desert coast is especially jarring since Lima is on that coast and Sechura is a small town in the northern end. WWF used it as a label for the entire "Eco region" at some point, but that does not mean that the entire Peruvian desert is called the Sechura desert. It is still explained in the Spanish article, which is shorter but far better than the English language article.62.44.135.103 (talk) 08:41, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

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Link to German Wikipedia page is wrong
When you click the link to the German Wikipedia it leads to the "Nazca-Ebene" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca-Ebene which is not the "Sechura Wueste". In the German Wikipedia there is no entry for the "Sechura Wueste". I would suggest the LInk to the German Wikipeda. Tertiaerblatt (talk) 19:49, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

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Nazca lines
Nazca lines are not in the Sechura Desert, isn't it? 212.243.178.130 (talk) 11:06, 13 June 2023 (UTC)


 * They are absolutely not, they are in the Ica region, south of Lima. The nazca desert is a separate thing altogether. 2803:A3E0:1040:9BE0:5954:1A12:A8E9:B9B1 (talk) 14:02, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I've edited out the image, but something should be done about all links to the "nazca desert" redirecting to this. It's not near nazca at all and you can see that very easily by just comparing the map of piura with Ica, where nazca is. 2803:A3E0:1040:9BE0:5954:1A12:A8E9:B9B1 (talk) 14:08, 14 September 2023 (UTC)