The Amotape Hills National Park is located around the Amotape District

Amotape District

Amotape District is one of seven districts of the province Paita in Peru.-References:...

, in the northern section of the Piura Region

Piura Region

Piura is a coastal region in northwestern Peru. The region's capital is Piura and its largest port cities, Paita and Talara, are also among the most important in Peru...

 and the extreme southern section of the Tumbes Region

Tumbes Region

Tumbes is a coastal region in northwestern Peru and southwestern Ecuador. Due to the region's location near the Equator it has a warm climate, with beaches that are considered among the finest in Peru...

 in Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

. It is the best well kept example of equatorial dry forests

Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest biome, also known as tropical dry forest, is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes. Though these forests occur in climates that are warm year-round, and may receive several hundred centimeters of rain per year, they have long dry seasons...

 in the whole Pacific region. Once before these forests covered the whole of Tumbes, Piura and Lambayeque

Lambayeque Region

Lambayeque is a region in northwestern Peru known for its rich Moche and Chimú historical past. The region's name originates from the ancient pre-Inca civilization of the Lambayeque.-Etymology:...

 in Peru, and the El Oro

El Oro Province

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 and the Guayas

Guayas

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 coastal provinces in Ecuador

Ecuador

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.

Many varieties of orchids, shrubs, thorn trees and animals are found in these regions such as the giant sloth bear

Sloth Bear

The sloth bear , also known as the labiated bear, is a nocturnal insectivorous species of bear found wild within the Indian subcontinent. The sloth bear evolved from ancestral brown bears during the Pleistocene and shares features found in insect-eating mammals through convergent evolution...

, the low Andean condor

Condor

Condor is the name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere.They are:* The Andean Condor which inhabits the Andean mountains....

, tigrillo, boa constrictor

Boa (genus)

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 and the endangered American Crocodile

American Crocodile

The American crocodile is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics. It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles from the Americas. Populations occur from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of southern Mexico to South America as far as Peru and Venezuela. It also lives...

. The national park was officially established on July 22, 1975 and has an area of 913 square kilometre.

Climate

Tropical and humid during the summer months, December to April, and a drier savanna climate during the rest of the year. The average temperature is around 27 °C (80.6 °F), with temperature highs of 42 °C (107.6 °F) and temperature lows at 16 °C (60.8 °F). All around the year it is sunny, over 25 °C (77 °F), although summers may turn unbearable.

It is the only Protected Natural Area in Peru where the equatorial dry forest ecoregion

Ecoregion

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is still preserved.