Restrepo, Meta

Municipality and town in Meta Department, Colombia
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Location of the municipality and town of Restrepo, Meta in the Meta Department of Colombia.
Location of the municipality and town of Restrepo, Meta in the Meta Department of Colombia.
Country ColombiaDepartmentMeta DepartmentArea • Total289 km2 (112 sq mi)Elevation
570 m (1,870 ft)Population
 (Census 2018[2])
 • Total17,610 • Density61/km2 (160/sq mi)Time zoneUTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)ClimateAf

Restrepo is a town and municipality in the Meta Department, Colombia.

Climate

Restrepo has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) with very heavy rainfall year round and extremely heavy rainfall from April to October. Precipitation exceeds 1,000 millimetres or 40 inches in May and June. It is the wettest place in the department of Meta, and one of the wettest places in the world, receiving comparable rainfall to the more famously wet Chocó region on the opposite side of the Andes.

Climate data for Restrepo
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 30.9
(87.6)
31.1
(88.0)
30.8
(87.4)
29.8
(85.6)
29.1
(84.4)
28.7
(83.7)
28.5
(83.3)
29.2
(84.6)
29.9
(85.8)
30.1
(86.2)
30.1
(86.2)
30.3
(86.5)
29.9
(85.8)
Daily mean °C (°F) 25.5
(77.9)
26.0
(78.8)
25.7
(78.3)
24.9
(76.8)
24.3
(75.7)
23.9
(75.0)
23.6
(74.5)
24.0
(75.2)
24.4
(75.9)
24.7
(76.5)
24.8
(76.6)
24.8
(76.6)
24.7
(76.5)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 20.1
(68.2)
20.9
(69.6)
20.7
(69.3)
20.0
(68.0)
19.6
(67.3)
19.1
(66.4)
18.7
(65.7)
18.9
(66.0)
19.0
(66.2)
19.3
(66.7)
19.5
(67.1)
19.4
(66.9)
19.6
(67.3)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 187.8
(7.39)
220.8
(8.69)
384.4
(15.13)
814.7
(32.07)
1,169.1
(46.03)
1,028.1
(40.48)
881.8
(34.72)
649.9
(25.59)
702.0
(27.64)
792.8
(31.21)
675.9
(26.61)
493.4
(19.43)
8,000.7
(314.99)
Average rainy days 12 14 19 25 28 28 28 25 24 25 24 21 273
Source 1: [3]
Source 2: [4]

References

  1. ^ "Municipalities of Colombia". statoids. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2018" (in Spanish). DANE. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2020-06-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Restrepo climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Restrepo weather averages - Climate-Data.org". en.climate-data.org. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
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4°15′00″N 73°34′00″W / 4.25°N 73.5667°W / 4.25; -73.5667


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