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Peru Watershed Data for the Arequipa Region

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Created:	Jul 23, 2023 at 8:01 p.m.
Last updated:	Aug 21, 2023 at 2:09 p.m.
DOI:	10.4211/hs.00baad14d1a546499eb39cdebde479ba
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Abstract

Surface water quality in southern Peru has been monitored for over a century. However, the information is distributed among different organizations, in different formats, and is available with considerable delay after official request. A substantial portion of the data has not been quality assured. Much of the data is available in difficult-to-access formats such as scanned PDFs. The diverse heterogeneity of the data and format make it very difficult to use it to conduct meaningful water quality analysis. In this remarkable effort, we gathered all available surface water quality information from five main watersheds in the Arequipa Region of southern Peru: Camaná, Chili, Ocoña, Tambo, and Yauca. The effort required manual entry of more than 130 thousand records (distributed among 29 general chemistry and nutrient parameters, 49 metals, 20 bacterium types, and 77 organic types) from 276 stations (1905-2021, the majority being generated in the last two decades) that were merged into one master Excel database to be available to the general public for further analysis. With this new Excel database, surface water quality information is now available in an organized and easy-to-work-with format, contributing to better research and further decision making for a better environment.

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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°

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Rymes, M., J. McCray (2023). Peru Watershed Data for the Arequipa Region, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/0c77c12e04f64c308aadd61802943714

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This resource was created using funding from the following sources:

Agency Name	Award Title	Award Number
The Center for Mining Sustainability		470160

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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 (2023). Peru Watershed Data for the Arequipa Region, HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.00baad14d1a546499eb39cdebde479ba

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