It also occurs very locally in coastal Peru.
N. p. niethammeri occurs in coastal central Peru.
The artifacts belonged to the mysterious Moche people of northern coastal Peru, who had no written language.
N. c. peruviana is restricted to coastal Peru up to 2500 m altitude.
Lucuma has been found on ceramics at burial sites of the indigenous people of coastal Peru.
The collection includes figures from coastal Peru and western Mexico that purported to show the medical histories of ancient people.
Their numbers increased steadily as sugar plantations were established by the Spanish on the islands, then in Mexico and coastal Peru.
There are even a few records from northern coastal Peru, with these snakes being reported in the Tumbes Region.
The town gives its name to the Sechura Desert, which extends south along most of coastal Peru.
Their growth presumably depended on irrigation in the arid valleys and hills descending to coastal Peru.