Sipí is a municipality and town in the

Chocó Department Choco Department is a department of Western Colombia known for its large Afro-Colombian population. It is in the west of the country, and is the only Colombian department to have coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It ...

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. An 1853 watercolor by

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showing a house in Sipí, built on a raised platform with a notched treetrunk for steps, is held by the

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Climate

Sipí has a very wet

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 ...

(Af) with very heavy rainfall year-round.

References

Municipalities of Chocó Department {{Chocó-geo-stub