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Lopez, Cauca

López de Micay
Municipality and town
San Miguél del Micay.jpg
Location of the municipality and town of López de Micay in the Cauca Department of Colombia.
Location of the municipality and town of López de Micay in the Cauca Department of Colombia.
Country  Colombia
Department Cauca Department
Time zone Colombia Standard Time (UTC-5)
Climate Af

López de Micay (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlopes ðe ˈmikai]) is a town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia. The Colombian meteorological service IDEAM reports an average annual precipitation of 12,892.4 mm (507.57 in), potentially making it the wettest inhabited place in the world. It is one of the wettest places on the Earth, with at least some amount of rain falling almost every day, with frequent downpours and torrential rain that causes flash flooding.

López de Micay has an extremely wet tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) with an average of approximately 10191 mm of rainfall per year. The average temperature is 26.9 °C.

Coordinates: 3°00′N 77°15′W / 3.000°N 77.250°W / 3.000; -77.250



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