Lancones District is one of eight districts of the province Sullana in Peru.[1]
Lancones | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Country |  Peru |
| Region | Piura |
| Province | Sullana |
| Founded | December 3, 1917 |
| Capital | Lancones |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,189.35 km2 (845.31 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 120 m (390 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 13,302 |
| • Density | 6.1/km2 (16/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (PET) |
| UBIGEO | 200604 |
In 2016, the Lancones District recorded a temperature of 39.8 °C (103.6 °F), which is the joint highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Peru along with Chulucanas.[2]
Climate
edit| Climate data for Lancones, elevation 136 m (446 ft), (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 33.8 (92.8) |
34.2 (93.6) |
33.9 (93.0) |
33.5 (92.3) |
31.5 (88.7) |
29.5 (85.1) |
29.0 (84.2) |
29.6 (85.3) |
30.7 (87.3) |
31.1 (88.0) |
31.7 (89.1) |
32.6 (90.7) |
31.8 (89.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 21.4 (70.5) |
22.6 (72.7) |
22.3 (72.1) |
21.4 (70.5) |
19.8 (67.6) |
17.7 (63.9) |
16.8 (62.2) |
16.6 (61.9) |
16.8 (62.2) |
17.1 (62.8) |
17.9 (64.2) |
19.3 (66.7) |
19.1 (66.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 46.7 (1.84) |
102.2 (4.02) |
149.5 (5.89) |
47.3 (1.86) |
6.9 (0.27) |
0.2 (0.01) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
1.3 (0.05) |
0.4 (0.02) |
21.3 (0.84) |
375.8 (14.8) |
| Source: National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru[3] | |||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
- ^ PERU21, NOTICIAS (2019-01-26). "Récords de calor en el norte | OPINION". Peru21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Normales Climáticas Estándares y Medias 1991-2020". National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
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