Puerto Nariño

Municipality and town in Amazonas Department, Colombia

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Location of the municipality and town of Puerto Nariño in the Amazonas Department of Colombia

3°46′24″S 70°22′55″W / 3.77333°S 70.38194°W / -3.77333; -70.38194Country

ColombiaDepartment

Amazonas DepartmentArea

• Total1,876 km² (724 sq mi)Time zoneUTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)ClimateAf

Puerto Nariño is the second municipality of the Amazonas department of Colombia, located on the shore of the Amazon River.

Puerto Nariño coves an area of 1,876 km² (724 sq mi). It has about 6,000 residents, most of them are indigenous (from the Ticuna tribe) and its specificity is that it is entirely pedestrian, no car or motorcycle being allowed, as an experiment in an ecological community. The traffic with the smaller communities along the river, and with Leticia, the only other Colombian municipality in the region, takes place by motorboats.

It is named after a famous Colombian general, Antonio Nariño, who took an active part in the independence war against the Spanish occupiers.

Geography

Puerto Nariño is the second municipality of the Amazonas department. It is on the edge of the River Loretoyaco, 67 km from Leticia and 1240 km from Bogota. The average temperature is 30°C.

History

The town was founded on 1961 August 18 by a doctor named Jose Humberto Espejo Hernandez.

Climate

Puerto Nariño has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

Climate data for Puerto Nariño
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	30.7 (87.3)	30.8 (87.4)	30.7 (87.3)	30.5 (86.9)	30.1 (86.2)	29.7 (85.5)	29.9 (85.8)	30.7 (87.3)	31.0 (87.8)	31.2 (88.2)	31.2 (88.2)	31.0 (87.8)	30.6 (87.1)
Daily mean °C (°F)	26.1 (79.0)	26.1 (79.0)	26.2 (79.2)	25.9 (78.6)	25.7 (78.3)	25.3 (77.5)	25.1 (77.2)	25.7 (78.3)	25.9 (78.6)	26.3 (79.3)	26.4 (79.5)	26.2 (79.2)	25.9 (78.6)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	21.5 (70.7)	21.5 (70.7)	21.7 (71.1)	21.4 (70.5)	21.4 (70.5)	20.9 (69.6)	20.3 (68.5)	20.8 (69.4)	20.9 (69.6)	21.5 (70.7)	21.7 (71.1)	21.5 (70.7)	21.3 (70.3)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	349.7 (13.77)	304.0 (11.97)	300.9 (11.85)	323.8 (12.75)	290.7 (11.44)	250.6 (9.87)	151.8 (5.98)	138.3 (5.44)	193.2 (7.61)	203.1 (8.00)	193.2 (7.61)	349.2 (13.75)	3,048.5 (120.04)
Average rainy days (≥ 1 mm)	19	17	15	16	17	15	10	9	12	13	12	19	174
Source 1: IDEAM^[1]
Source 2: Climate-Data.org^[2]