Stretching from coastal, northwestern Peru into southern Ecuador, the 14, 000-square-mile Piura Desert is home to many endemic forms of thorny life.

皮乌拉沙漠从西北沿海的秘鲁一直延伸到南部的厄瓜多尔，覆盖面积14 000平方英里，沙漠地区居民生活非常艰苦。

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In Bajo Piura they find it, although living there has other costs, and fragile drylands pay their own price too, as people exacerbate desertification by cutting anything living for firewood.

终于在皮乌拉找到了这样的免费土地，但是居住于此依旧需要花费其他成本的。另外这里脆弱的旱地也因他们的到来付出了代价，因为这些人砍伐了这里所有的植物用作柴火从而导致了这里的沙化现象更为严重。

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In 1982-83, the desert city of Piura was flooded for four months, the cotton crop of the nearby valleys was washed away, and mudslides cut roads and railways in the Andes, hindering the transport of output from mines.

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