El Calvario

Municipality and town in Meta Department, Colombia

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Location of the municipality and town of El Calvario in the Meta Department of Colombia.

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ColombiaDepartmentMeta DepartmentElevation

1,987 m (6,519 ft)Time zoneUTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)ClimateAf/Cfb

El Calvario is a town and municipality in the Meta Department, Colombia. It was the epicenter of the 2008 Colombia earthquake.

Climate

El Calvario has a borderline subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cfb)/tropical rainforest climate (Af) with mild mornings, warm afternoons and heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

Climate data for El Calvario
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	23.8 (74.8)	24.1 (75.4)	24.1 (75.4)	23.5 (74.3)	23.0 (73.4)	22.1 (71.8)	22.2 (72.0)	22.4 (72.3)	22.8 (73.0)	23.1 (73.6)	22.9 (73.2)	23.1 (73.6)	23.1 (73.6)
Daily mean °C (°F)	18.1 (64.6)	18.6 (65.5)	19.2 (66.6)	19.0 (66.2)	18.8 (65.8)	18.1 (64.6)	18.1 (64.6)	18.0 (64.4)	18.0 (64.4)	18.3 (64.9)	18.2 (64.8)	17.9 (64.2)	18.4 (65.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	12.4 (54.3)	13.1 (55.6)	14.3 (57.7)	14.6 (58.3)	14.6 (58.3)	14.2 (57.6)	14.0 (57.2)	13.7 (56.7)	13.3 (55.9)	13.6 (56.5)	13.5 (56.3)	12.8 (55.0)	13.7 (56.6)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	66.3 (2.61)	112.4 (4.43)	134.2 (5.28)	345.7 (13.61)	427.3 (16.82)	452.1 (17.80)	521.2 (20.52)	431.9 (17.00)	274.4 (10.80)	221.2 (8.71)	166.6 (6.56)	82.2 (3.24)	3,235.5 (127.38)
Average rainy days	8	10	14	22	25	25	27	25	22	20	17	11	226
Source 1: IDEAM^[1]
Source 2: Climate-Data.org^[2]

References

^ "Data". www.ideam.gov.co. Archived from the original on 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
^ "Climate: El Calvario". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved August 26, 2020.