Sechura

Sechura is a town in northwestern Peru, 50 kilometres south of Piura and the capital of Sechura Province in the Piura Region. The city gives its name to the Sechura Desert, which extends south along most of coastal Peru, and crescent dunes lie south of the city between the sea and the highway. Its main square has the Catedral de Sechura, built in the eighteenth century in the Spanish colonial style and sometimes called the Sand Cathedral because of the desert around it. The climate is hot desert, with high temperatures throughout the year and extremely low precipitation: February, the hottest month, averages daily highs of 33 degrees Celsius and lows of 23, August, the coolest, averages highs of 26 and lows of 17, and about 80 millimetres of rain fall in a year, most of it between January and March.