CGS Foreign Development Cooperation

Peru

Natural hazards
in the central and upper catchment areas
of the Chira and Piura rivers, NW Peru

This project involves geological, geomorphological, and hydrological studies focused on documentating, defi ning, and predicting of natural hazards. Floods, landslides, and erosional and depositional features are frequent phenomena that damages communications, settlements, and agricultural land in the catchment areas of the Chira and Piura Rivers.

New studies evaluating the degree of natural hazards provide a very important basis for the economic development of the region. The final product of the project will be a computer information system (GIS) covering individual layers: natural hazards, geology,  geomorphology, and hydrology, and will contain the text of reports and hydrological models of inundation areas and bases for water management in the Chira and Piura River catchments. The potential for predicting natural disasters and minimizing their damages is also being investigated.