Piamonte
Piamonte | |
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Municipality and town | |
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 Location of the municipality and town of Piamonte in the Cauca Department of Colombia. | |
| Country |  Colombia |
| Department | Cauca Department |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 6,339[1] |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time) |
| Climate | Af |
| Website | http://www.piamonte-cauca.gov.co/ |
Piamonte is a town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia.
Piamonte was founded in 1959 as a district of the municipality of Santa Rosa. Its inhabitants are settlers from various regions of the interior of Colombia that have been established there in successive migrations attracted initially by the quinine bonanza in the 1930s, displaced by the violence in the 1950s and 1960s and finally attracted by the oil fever . There are also members of the Inga indigenous community. Piamonte was declared as municipality in 1996.
Climate
Piamonte has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) with hot temperatures, high humidity and heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.
| Climate data for Piamonte | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 30.7 (87.3) |
30.4 (86.7) |
29.9 (85.8) |
29.5 (85.1) |
29.3 (84.7) |
28.9 (84.0) |
28.8 (83.8) |
29.6 (85.3) |
30.0 (86.0) |
30.4 (86.7) |
30.3 (86.5) |
30.4 (86.7) |
29.9 (85.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.7 (78.3) |
25.5 (77.9) |
25.3 (77.5) |
25.0 (77.0) |
24.9 (76.8) |
24.6 (76.3) |
24.3 (75.7) |
24.7 (76.5) |
25.1 (77.2) |
25.4 (77.7) |
25.5 (77.9) |
25.6 (78.1) |
25.1 (77.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 20.8 (69.4) |
20.7 (69.3) |
20.7 (69.3) |
20.6 (69.1) |
20.5 (68.9) |
20.3 (68.5) |
19.9 (67.8) |
19.9 (67.8) |
20.3 (68.5) |
20.5 (68.9) |
20.8 (69.4) |
20.9 (69.6) |
20.5 (68.9) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 230 (9.1) |
247 (9.7) |
367 (14.4) |
418 (16.5) |
444 (17.5) |
461 (18.1) |
418 (16.5) |
301 (11.9) |
322 (12.7) |
341 (13.4) |
341 (13.4) |
267 (10.5) |
4,157 (163.7) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[2] | |||||||||||||
Places of interest
The Serranía de Los Churumbelos Auka-Wasi National Natural Park located in the mountainous part of the municipality.
References
- ^ "Piamonte (Piamonte, Cauca, Colombia) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de.
- ^ "Climate: Piamonte". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
