Municipality and town in Meta Department, Colombia
Restrepo, Meta
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Location of the municipality and town of Restrepo, Meta in the Meta Department of Colombia.
Country Colombia Department Meta Department • Total
289 km2 (112 sq mi) Elevation
570 m (1,870 ft) • Total
17,610 • Density 61/km2 (160/sq mi) Time zone UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)Climate Af
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
29.1
28.7
28.1
27.5
26.2
26.5
27.2
28.0
28.0
27.9
28.3
27.9
Daily mean °C (°F)
24.3
25.0
24.5
23.5
23.0
22.2
21.9
22.4
22.8
23.1
23.2
23.4
23.3
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
20.8
21.8
21.1
20.3
20.0
19.3
19.0
19.4
19.3
19.4
20.1
20.2
20.1
Average precipitation mm (inches)
60.5
113.0
207.4
544.4
667.3
627.1
544.7
499.8
413.5
535.0
407.5
184.7
4,804.9
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 [ 3]
References
4°15′00″N 73°34′00″W / 4.25°N 73.5667°W / 4.25; -73.5667
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