Lloró is a municipality and town in the Chocó Department, Colombia. It claims the second world record for highest average annual precipitation with ,http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/faunayflora/pacific1/cap10.htm after López de Micay, which holds an also disputed record with . The official record is held by Mawsynram, India. The rainfall data was measured in its Agricultural Farm, managed by the University of Bogotá, between 1952 and 1989. If accurate, that would make it the wettest place in the world.NCDC: Global Measured Extremes of Temperature and Precipitation Although “lloró” is the 3rd person singular preterite tense of the Spanish verb “llorar” (to cry) which may colloquially be compared to rain, this similarity is merely incidental; the town is named for Gioró, a pre-Columbian indigenous chief.
An 1853 watercolor by Manuel María Paz portrays two men in straw hats with a female vendor at a liquor stand in Lloró.
Climate Lloró has a very wet tropical rainforest climate (Af). The town of Lloró itself has only 8000 mm of rain but the farm located to the east of the city has 12,892.4 mm.
Corregimientos
El Cajón Carmen de Surama Irabubú La Playita San Lorenzo Sesego El Tigre Urabará
See also Wettest places on Earth Big Bog, Maui Cherrapunji Mount Waialeale Quibdó
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