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Honda | |
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Municipality and town | |
Nickname: "The Bridge City" | |
Country | Colombia |
Department | Tolima |
Government | |
• Mayor | Alberto Arce Camacho |
Area | |
304.9 km2 (117.7 sq mi) | |
• Urban | 10.15 km2 (3.92 sq mi) |
Elevation | 229 m (751 ft) |
Population (2018 census) [1] | |
24,693 | |
• Density | 81/km2 (210/sq mi) |
• Urban | 23,658 |
• Urban density | 2,300/km2 (6,000/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-5 |
Honda (IPA: [onda] ) is a town and municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia. The population of the municipality was 24,693 as of the census 2018. [1] Along with Líbano, Honda is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Líbano-Honda. The main industries of Honda are tourism, fishing, and cattle-ranching.
Honda takes its name from the Ondaimas, the indigenous people that inhabited the banks of the Magdalena River and the region where the city lies today.
Honda is called "the City of Bridges" with more than 40 of them on the rivers Magdalena, Gualí, Guarinó, and Quebrada Seca. It is also called the "City of Peace" as it escaped most of the violence of the 1950s. [2]
Honda was founded on August 24, 1539 by Francisco Nuñez Pedroso. The "golden age" of the city was between 1850 and 1910 when the Magdalena river constituted the only means of transportation between the Caribbean coast and the inland city of Bogotá. The city was the main river port of the country and all the imported goods and articles arrived in Bogotá through the port of Honda.
Because of its historical importance, Honda was named a Pueblo Patrimonio (heritage town) of Colombia in 2010. As of March 2021, it is the only municipality in the Middle Magdalena Valley region that has been awarded this distinction. [3]
Climate data for Honda (Esperanza La), elevation 222 m (728 ft), (1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 33.0 (91.4) | 33.2 (91.8) | 33.1 (91.6) | 32.7 (90.9) | 32.7 (90.9) | 33.6 (92.5) | 34.9 (94.8) | 35.5 (95.9) | 34.2 (93.6) | 32.4 (90.3) | 32.0 (89.6) | 32.3 (90.1) | 33.3 (91.9) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 27.5 (81.5) | 27.8 (82.0) | 27.7 (81.9) | 27.4 (81.3) | 27.4 (81.3) | 27.7 (81.9) | 28.6 (83.5) | 29.1 (84.4) | 28.5 (83.3) | 27.4 (81.3) | 27.0 (80.6) | 27.3 (81.1) | 27.7 (81.9) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.1 (71.8) | 22.2 (72.0) | 22.4 (72.3) | 22.5 (72.5) | 22.5 (72.5) | 22.4 (72.3) | 21.9 (71.4) | 22.2 (72.0) | 22.2 (72.0) | 22.1 (71.8) | 22.1 (71.8) | 22.4 (72.3) | 22.2 (72.0) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 51.2 (2.02) | 75.3 (2.96) | 117.9 (4.64) | 194.8 (7.67) | 178.1 (7.01) | 71.1 (2.80) | 57.3 (2.26) | 74.8 (2.94) | 140.2 (5.52) | 214.1 (8.43) | 211.1 (8.31) | 112.6 (4.43) | 1,498.5 (59.00) |
Average precipitation days | 8 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 17 | 12 | 154 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 76 | 75 | 76 | 79 | 78 | 73 | 67 | 65 | 71 | 78 | 80 | 80 | 75 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 201.5 | 166.6 | 151.9 | 147.0 | 176.7 | 180.0 | 207.7 | 204.6 | 180.0 | 173.6 | 174.0 | 189.1 | 2,152.7 |
Mean daily sunshine hours | 6.5 | 5.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.7 | 6.0 | 6.7 | 6.6 | 6.0 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 5.9 |
Source: Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales [4] |
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