Restrepo, Meta

Restrepo, Meta
Municipality and town
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Location of the municipality and town of Restrepo, Meta in the Meta Department of Colombia.
Country	Colombia
Department	Meta Department
Area [1]
• 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 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 (40 inches) during the months of 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 [3]

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.^{[ dead link ]}

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