Restrepo is a town and municipality in the Meta Department, Colombia.
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Restrepo, Meta | |
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Municipality and town | |
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![]() Location of the municipality and town of Restrepo, Meta in the Meta Department of Colombia. | |
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Department | Meta Department |
Area | |
• Total | 289 km2 (112 sq mi) |
Elevation | 570 m (1,870 ft) |
Population (Census 2018[2]) | |
• Total | 17,610 |
• Density | 61/km2 (160/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time) |
Climate | Af |
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 | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Average high °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) |
Average low °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 |
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Source 2: [4] |
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