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Yopal
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Municipality and town
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Top: Yopal from the Chamber of Commerce, Second: Cultural center, Third: El Alcaraván Airport, Four: Nunchía Avenue
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Location of the municipality and town of Yopal in the Casanare Department of Colombia.
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  Yopal Location in Colombia | |
| Coordinates: 5°21′0″N 72°24′36″W / 5.35000°N 72.41000°W / 5.35000; -72.41000 | |
| Country |  Colombia |
| Region | Orinoquía Region |
| Department | Casanare Department |
| Founded | 1915 |
| Area | |
| • Municipality and town | 2,483 km2 (959 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 25.09 km2 (9.69 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 350 m (1,150 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Municipality and town | 191,133 |
| • Density | 77/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Yopaleño |
| Time zone | UTC-05 (Colombia Standard Time) |
| Postal code |
850001-9
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| Area code | 57 + 8 |
| Website | Official website (in Spanish) |
Yopal (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝoˈpal]) is a municipality and capital city of the departmentofCasanareinColombia. And the second most populated and important city in the Orinoquía region after Villavicencio.[3]
Before the period of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the land on which Yopal stands was occupied by the indigenous Achagua people. The name Yopal descends from the region's abundance of Anadenanthera peregrina, often otherwise called yopo.
Yopal has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). Although it borders closely on a tropical savanna climate (Aw), Yopal’s climate is much more typical of a tropical monsoon climate in having a short but distinct dry season that covers the months of December to March, and a very long wet season covering the remaining eight months.
| Climate data for Yopal (El Alcaraván Airport), elevation 325 m (1,066 ft), (1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 32.8 (91.0) |
33.7 (92.7) |
33.4 (92.1) |
31.5 (88.7) |
30.5 (86.9) |
29.5 (85.1) |
29.4 (84.9) |
30.1 (86.2) |
30.8 (87.4) |
31.0 (87.8) |
31.3 (88.3) |
31.9 (89.4) |
31.2 (88.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 28.2 (82.8) |
28.7 (83.7) |
28.5 (83.3) |
26.6 (79.9) |
25.7 (78.3) |
25.1 (77.2) |
24.9 (76.8) |
25.4 (77.7) |
26.0 (78.8) |
26.2 (79.2) |
26.7 (80.1) |
27.2 (81.0) |
26.4 (79.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 23.3 (73.9) |
23.8 (74.8) |
24.0 (75.2) |
23.0 (73.4) |
22.6 (72.7) |
21.9 (71.4) |
21.6 (70.9) |
21.7 (71.1) |
22.1 (71.8) |
22.2 (72.0) |
22.8 (73.0) |
22.8 (73.0) |
22.6 (72.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 9.6 (0.38) |
53.7 (2.11) |
101.3 (3.99) |
262.6 (10.34) |
360.1 (14.18) |
324.5 (12.78) |
330.4 (13.01) |
276.5 (10.89) |
270.3 (10.64) |
238.7 (9.40) |
134.3 (5.29) |
28.2 (1.11) |
2,390.1 (94.10) |
| Average precipitation days | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 147 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 60 | 61 | 64 | 78 | 82 | 84 | 83 | 81 | 80 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 75 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 251.1 | 194.8 | 155.0 | 126.0 | 139.5 | 123.0 | 136.4 | 145.7 | 165.0 | 176.7 | 189.0 | 238.7 | 2,040.9 |
| Mean daily sunshine hours | 8.1 | 6.9 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 6.3 | 7.7 | 5.6 |
| Source: Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales[4] | |||||||||||||
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