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Geography:

Its territory has a smooth topography in the coast and a rough one in highlands. In this region abound the desertic plains. Sechura, to the south of the Piura River, is the desert with th greatest surface at a national level. In it is Bayóvar depression, which is the lowest area in the Peruvian territory, 37 meters under sea level. The morphological forms most common in the coast are the dry ravines that suddenly become copious when there are heavy rains. Other features are a half-moon shaped dunes, the marine terraces such as those of Máncora, Talara and Lobitos; fluvial terraces formed by Chira and Piura Rivers and the ancient relief of Amotape, that delimits the coast to the north of the department.

To the east, the region is rougher. Valleys more or less deep have been eroded by fluvial waters. The major peak surpas 3,000 m. The Paso de Porculla, to the southwest of the territory is only 2,138 meters deep and is the lowest of the Peruvian Andes.

The rivers crossing its territory belong to the Pacific watershed and to the Amazonas Hydrographic System. The Chira is the most important and flows its waters into the Pacific Ocean, and the Huancabamba is the greatest of this system. The Piura River, whose banks hold the same name city, only flow its waters into the sea during summer, which is the rain season.

The climate is desertic and semi-desertic in the coast and western andean watersheds, subtropical in the easthern watersheds. The rain is scarce, but when the "El Niño" phenomenon arises, when the rain is copious and make the dry ravines become alive giving rise to floodings and greatly morphological movements.

Piura is the land of carob trees. Its development has been favoured by the petroleum exploitation and for the fishery boom.