“…The results of flood routing for the La Leche basin, as shown in Figure 8, also indicate an increase in flow in an east to southwest direction as the return period progresses. This pattern is characteristic of the North Pacific basins of Peru, as reported by the investigations of Arriola et al (2021), Rollenbeck et al (2021) and Arriola et al (2023). Furthermore, this sequence of hydrological behavior has been influenced in recent years by extreme events due to the El Niño Phenomenon (Aguirre et al, 2019;Carrizales et al, 2022;Peña et al, 2023).…”