Peru Watershed Data for the Arequipa Region

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Molly RymesJohn McCray
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Created: Feb 27, 2024 at 5:53 a.m.
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Published date: Feb 27, 2024 at 2:32 p.m.
DOI: 10.4211/hs.9f41a8d821584da5aa69b7f3251341d7
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Abstract

Surface water quality has been monitored in southern Peru for over a century, but the information is only available from various organizations with considerable delay after official requests. A substantial portion of the data have not been quality assured and were available in difficult-to-access formats such as scanned PDF documents, which made it difficult to evaluate water quality trends. In this project, we gathered all available surface water quality information from five watersheds in the Arequipa Region of southern Peru: Camaná, Chili, Ocoña, Tambo, and Yauca. The effort required entry of more than 130 thousand records of general chemistry, nutrients, and parameters, metals, organic compounds, and biological taxa from 276 stations. The water quality records span the years 2012 to 2021 for most data, but Chili does include data starting from 1905. This paper describes how the water quality data were assimilated and provides one master Excel database so that the surface water quality data can be used for research and decision making.

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Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Arequipa Region
North Latitude
-14.5061°
East Longitude
-69.9042°
South Latitude
-17.1762°
West Longitude
-74.5514°

Temporal

Start Date: 06/19/2012
End Date: 06/15/2021
Leaflet Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

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This resource updates and replaces a previous version Rymes, M., J. McCray (2024). Peru Watershed Data for the Arequipa Region, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/88b7a1a3b9f144d0807f04aca972a728
This resource has been replaced by a newer version Rymes, M., R. Rasmussen, P. A. Garcia-Chevesich, K. Burgert, J. Long, E. McBride, G. Martínez, K. Martínez, T. Tejada, K. E. Murray, G. Vanzin, J. O. Sharp, J. E. McCray (2024). Peru Watershed Data for the Arequipa Region, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/c1cfd1cfdb04461289a56970c2fd1d51

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Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
The Center for Mining Sustainability 470160

Contributors

People or Organizations that contributed technically, materially, financially, or provided general support for the creation of the resource's content but are not considered authors.

Name Organization Address Phone Author Identifiers
Autoridad Nacional del Agua (ANA)
Autoridad Autonoma de Majes (AUTODEMA)
Daniel Luque Zurita
Hector Novoa Andia

How to Cite

Rymes, M., J. McCray (2024). Peru Watershed Data for the Arequipa Region, HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.9f41a8d821584da5aa69b7f3251341d7

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