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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Restrepo, Meta

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 (Salinas de Upin), elevation 450 m (1,480 ft), (1971–2000)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 29.2
(84.6)
29.1
(84.4)
28.7
(83.7)
28.1
(82.6)
27.5
(81.5)
26.2
(79.2)
26.5
(79.7)
27.2
(81.0)
28.0
(82.4)
28.0
(82.4)
27.9
(82.2)
28.3
(82.9)
27.9
(82.2)
Daily mean °C (°F) 24.3
(75.7)
25.0
(77.0)
24.5
(76.1)
23.5
(74.3)
23.0
(73.4)
22.2
(72.0)
21.9
(71.4)
22.4
(72.3)
22.8
(73.0)
23.1
(73.6)
23.2
(73.8)
23.4
(74.1)
23.3
(73.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 20.8
(69.4)
21.8
(71.2)
21.1
(70.0)
20.3
(68.5)
20.0
(68.0)
19.3
(66.7)
19.0
(66.2)
19.4
(66.9)
19.3
(66.7)
19.4
(66.9)
20.1
(68.2)
20.2
(68.4)
20.1
(68.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 60.5
(2.38)
113.0
(4.45)
207.4
(8.17)
544.4
(21.43)
667.3
(26.27)
627.1
(24.69)
544.7
(21.44)
499.8
(19.68)
413.5
(16.28)
535.0
(21.06)
407.5
(16.04)
184.7
(7.27)
4,804.9
(189.17)
Average precipitation days 9 10 17 24 27 27 26 24 22 23 22 15 247
Average relative humidity (%) 76 74 78 85 88 90 88 87 86 86 86 84 84
Mean monthly sunshine hours 114.7 98.9 71.3 75.0 89.9 69.0 80.6 108.5 117.0 120.9 105.0 111.6 1,162.4
Mean daily sunshine hours 3.7 3.5 2.3 2.5 2.9 2.3 2.6 3.5 3.9 3.9 3.5 3.6 3.2
Source: Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales

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. ^ "Promedios Climatológicos 1971–2000" (in Spanish). Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales. Retrieved 25 June 2024.

4°15′00″N 73°34′00″W / 4.25°N 73.5667°W / 4.25; -73.5667