Sechura Desert
It’s located to the east of Sechura, and in the southern part Piura's west. It is a desert zone of approximately. 127,550 Hectares where "Medano Blanco and the Julián cunes" stand out. It’s an appropriate place for skiing in sand, motocross, and treks.
This plain of rich soils with slime of alluvial origin, covered with wide layers of sand moved by the wind action borders on "El Mar the Grau" (Grau's Sea) in "El Reventazón Beach" where there are located warehouses of phosphoric rocks of marine origin, located in some cases under the level of the sea.
It includes approximately 5,240 Km2 area inside which ranges are distinguished geomorphologic significance like:
- "El macizo de Illescas": extensive rocky formation that was part of the mountain chain of the coast. It has a length of 40 km and an elevation of 480 m.
- The big depressions: pits where they have settled phosphates.
- Virrilá's Estuary has a great ichthyologic wealth for its mixture of salty and sweet waters. It constitutes a potential ecosystem. It was originated by the former river mouth of the river Piura.
- The wide shallow parts cover a great extension.
They appear up to four micro-climates inside this zone, with annual averages of 20 °, 22.5°C respectively.
It is the desert with the biggest national surface where Bayóvar's depression, is located. It is the lowest area of the Peruvian territory with 37 m. Under the level of the sea
Virrilá's Estuary
To 40 Km to the south of Sechura's city, there is a great natural space with a great variety of flora and fauna. It is a marine estuary with eventual income of sweet water of the river Piura.
It’s the natural habitat of Flemings, pelicans, cranes, gulls, marine wolves, etc. Besides, it’s one of the most beautiful marine faunas that live protected by the rocky tops.
It’s considered one of the most resplendent prodigies of the Pacific Ocean, it offers the possibility of relaxing rides on boat, treks, motocross, exciting cavalcades and many other leisure and sports activities, taking advantage of its varied one and very special geography. When the tide goes down small islands are formed and the landscape goes returning of different colors, when they change the hours without losing its beauty and captivation.
 The Dam "Los Ejidos"
It’s located to 8 km. in the north of Piura's city.
The modern work of hydraulic engineering constructed on the river Piura, it waters the fields of culture(culturing) of the low Piura and around it we can enjoy a variety of flora and fauna, besides walks in raft or practicing moto nautical.
Birdwatching in Piura
The number of adventurous tourists who come to Peru enjoy the biodiversity, customs and landscapes is increasing.
Enrique Angulo Pratolongo, journalist of Info ecology says to us that the observers of birds or birdwatchers are a limited group of persons who observe birds and organize accustomed trips exclusively for such a purpose. These excursions can be dedicated to the solitary endemic and rarest specimen of seeing in a geographical limited area, or to the different and numerous birds that populate a certain ecosystem. This way of doing tourism is receiving an important summit in Peru.
Peru offers a diversity of landscapes and extraordinary possibilities for this activity, not only for the great quantity of birds that it possesses, but also for its high quota of endemism, that is to say for the great number of species that they find exclusively in some habitats inside the Peruvian territory. Both particularities make it very attractive also for the scientists and researchers.
Piura possesses a surprising ornithological diversity. That is the bird watching.  See Bird watching Route
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