Yopal

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Yopal
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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CountryFile:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia
RegionOrinoquía Region
DepartmentCasanare Department
Founded1915
Area
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Elevation
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Population
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Time zoneUTC-05 (Colombia Standard Time)
Postal code
850001-9
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WebsiteOfficial website Template:In lang

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Yopal (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a municipality and capital city of the department of Casanare in Colombia and the second most populated and important city in the Orinoquía region after Villavicencio.[3]

History

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.

Geographic information

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Skyline of Yopal from the Cerro Buena vista (Buena Vista Hill)
  • Population: 191.133 inhabitants
  • Elevation: 350 metres or 1,150 feet
  • Area: 2,771 square kilometres or 1,070 square miles
  • Distance from Bogotá: 387 kilometres or 240 miles
  • Median temperature: 26 °C or 78.8 °F

Born in Yopal

Climate

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.

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."INFORMACIÓN CAPITAL" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Telefónicas, Telencuestas-Encuestas. "Cuántos habitantes tiene Yopal, Casanare en 2023". Telencuestas (in español). Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Espectador, El (2023-07-23). "ELESPECTADOR.COM". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Promedios Climatológicos 1981–2010" (in español). Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2024.

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