page_title: Chala
section_title: Loma-vegetation
hierarchical_section_title: Chala / Loma-vegetation
caption_attribution_description: Vegetation in Lomas de LachayLachay Lumakunapi yurakuna
context_page_description: The Chala or "Coast" is one of the eight natural regions in Peru. It is formed by all the western lands that arise from sea level up to the height of 500 meters. The coastal desert of Peru is largely devoid of vegetation but a unique fog and mist-fed ecosystem called Lomas is scattered among hills near the Pacific coast as elevations up to 1,000 metres.
  In this region, the flora includes vegetation that grows near the rivers, like the carob tree, the palo verde, salty grama grass, manglar or mangrove tree, the carrizo or giant reed and the Caña brava; and plants that grow in the hills, such as the Amancay or Peruvian daffodil, the wild tomato, the mito or Peruvian papaya, and the divi-divi.
  The coastal fauna of the Chala includes sea lions, the anchovy and several seabirds.
  Common trees in the north are the faique, the zapote, the zapayal, the barrigon and other thorny tropical savanna trees of the equatorial dry forests on the northern coast of Piura and Tumbes. Páramo and the northern coast of the Piura region are not under the influence of the cold Humboldt Current. Páramo has a tree line at the border, even on the westside of the continental divide.
context_section_description: Loma-vegetation, is found between 150 metres (490 ft) and 600 metres (2,000 ft) and it is situated at the first westside slope near the coast in Peru. This subregion has a subtropical desert climate with little rainfall along the central and southern coast (drier as one goes south). The average year round day temperature is 21 °C (70 °F) (max 33 °C, min 8 °C).
  Orientation:
  Lomas, fog and mist-fed ecosystems on hills near the ocean and scattered along the nearly-rainless coastal desert.
  Lomas de Lachay, Huaral Province in Lima, a protected example of a mist-fed ecosystem.
caption: Lomas de Lachay, Lima, Peru
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