El Carmen de Atrato is a municipality and town in the
Chocó Department,
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
.
Climate
El Carmen de Atrato has an
subtropical highland climate (
Köppen ''Cfb'') which borders a
tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southea ...
. The town’s high altitude makes its climate more like that of
the Andean Region than the climate of most of Chocó Department, although it still receives more than twice as much rain as Bogotá.
References
External links
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El Carmen de Atrato official website
Municipalities of Chocó Department
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