Yopal

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Municipality and town in Orinoquía Region, Colombia

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Location of the municipality and town of Yopal in the Casanare Department of Colombia.

5°21′0″N 72°24′36″W / 5.35000°N 72.41000°W / 5.35000; -72.41000Country

ColombiaRegionOrinoquía RegionDepartmentCasanare DepartmentFounded1915Area

• Municipality and town2,483 km² (959 sq mi) • Urban

25.09 km² (9.69 sq mi)Elevation

350 m (1,150 ft)Population

(2023^[1]^[2])

• Municipality and town191,133 • Density77/km² (200/sq mi)DemonymYopaleñoTime zoneUTC-05 (Colombia Standard Time)Postal code

850001-9

Area code57 + 8WebsiteOfficial website (in Spanish)

Yopal (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝoˈpal]) is a municipality and capital city of the department of Casanare in Colombia. And the second most populated and important city in the Orinoquía region after Villavicencio.^[3]

History

Before the period of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the land on which Yopal stands was occupied by the indigenous Achagua people. The name Yopal descends from the region's abundance of Anadenanthera peregrina, often otherwise called yopo.

Geographic information

Population: 191.133 inhabitants
Elevation: 350 metres or 1,150 feet
Area: 2,771 square kilometres or 1,070 square miles
Distance from Bogotá: 387 kilometres or 240 miles
Median temperature: 26 °C or 78.8 °F

Born in Yopal

Camila Avella, Model and Miss Universe Colombia 2023
Jeffry Romero, professional cyclist
Andres Badillo Entrepreneur
Mechs, streamer of League of Legends

Climate

Yopal has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). Although it borders closely on a tropical savanna climate (Aw), Yopal’s climate is much more typical of a tropical monsoon climate in having a short but distinct dry season that covers the months of December to March, and a very long wet season covering the remaining eight months.

Climate data for Yopal
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	32.5 (90.5)	33.2 (91.8)	33.2 (91.8)	31.5 (88.7)	30.8 (87.4)	29.7 (85.5)	29.9 (85.8)	30.5 (86.9)	30.7 (87.3)	30.8 (87.4)	31.1 (88.0)	31.7 (89.1)	31.3 (88.3)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	22.5 (72.5)	22.9 (73.2)	23.7 (74.7)	22.6 (72.7)	22.3 (72.1)	21.7 (71.1)	21.5 (70.7)	21.4 (70.5)	21.5 (70.7)	21.6 (70.9)	21.9 (71.4)	22.2 (72.0)	22.2 (71.9)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	8.5 (0.33)	60.4 (2.38)	79.3 (3.12)	279.0 (10.98)	333.7 (13.14)	298.0 (11.73)	312.3 (12.30)	255.4 (10.06)	275.9 (10.86)	255.0 (10.04)	131.8 (5.19)	20.2 (0.80)	2,309.5 (90.93)
Average rainy days (≥ 1 mm)	1	4	7	15	16	17	18	17	15	14	10	4	138
Source: IDEAM

References

^ "INFORMACIÓN CAPITAL" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-08-28.
^ Telefónicas, Telencuestas-Encuestas. "Cuántos habitantes tiene Yopal, Casanare en 2023". Telencuestas (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-11-07.
^ Espectador, El (2023-07-23). "ELESPECTADOR.COM". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-25.