Overview
- The Dirección de Hidrografía y Navegación of the Peruvian Navy issued an advisory extending anomalous wave conditions and hazardous seas through June 16, based on a weakened South Pacific anticyclone and stronger polar lows.
- Authorities have ordered widespread preventive closures of ports and caletas, with reports varying between about 92 of 122 ports closed and COEN/Dicapi citing roughly 106 closures to protect vessels and crews.
- Search-and-rescue teams remain active after two fishermen were reported missing off Pisco, with maritime and ground units deployed under the Capitanía de Pisco’s SAR protocol.
- Strong waves have damaged coastal infrastructure — including parts of the Malecón Grau in Pacasmayo and the transitable decking at Puerto Eten — and have flooded homes, forced local evacuations and halted artisanal fishing and tourism activity.
- Local leaders and residents say emergency repairs and preventive materials are insufficient, prompting improvised defenses and calls for coordinated regional and municipal action to shore up enrocados, restore piers and support affected fishing families.