Lloró
Lloró is a municipality an toun in the Chocó Depairtment, Colombie. It claims the seicont warld record for heichest average annual precipitation wi 12,717 mm (501 in)[1][2] efter López del Micay which haulds the record wi 12,892.4 mm (508 in).[3] The rainfaw data wis measured in its Agricultural Farm, managed bi the Varsity o Bogotá, atween 1952 an 1989. If accurate, that wad mak it the wettest place in the warld.[4] The Spainyie verb llorar "tae cry" can be uised as a metaphor for rain an aw, an sae lloró can mean "It rained". Housomeivver, this is no the oreegin o the name; the toun is namit for Gioró, a pre-Columbie indigenous chief.
Lloró | |
|---|---|
Municipality an toun | |
 Location o the municipality an toun o Lloró in the Chocó Depairtment o Colombie. | |
| Kintra |  Colombie |
| Depairtment | Chocó |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Colombie Staundart Time) |
An 1853 wattercolor bi Manuel María Paz portrays twa men in strae hats wi a female vendor at a liquor staund in Lloró.[5]
Corregimientos eedit
- El Cajón
- Carmen de Surama
- Irabubú
- La Playita
- San Lorenzo
- Sesego
- El Tigre
- Urabará
See an aw eedit
References eedit
- ↑ http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/faunayflora/pacific1/cap10.htm[deid airtin]
- ↑ Luiz Drude de Lacerda (9 Februar 2004). Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical and Subtropical Environments. Springer. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-3-540-42540-3.
- ↑ Burt, Christopher C (18 Mairch 2013). "Weather Extremes : New Wettest Place on Earth Discovered?". Weather Underground. Archived frae the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 22 Mey 2014.
- ↑ "NCDC: Global Measured Extremes of Temperature and Precipitation". Archived frae the original on 25 Mey 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- ↑ Paz, Manuel María. "Liquor Shop in the Village of Lloró, Province of Chocó". World Digital Library. Retrieved 21 Mey 2014.