Yopal
Municipality and town in Orinoquía Region, Colombia
Yopal (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝoˈpal]) 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.
01History
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.
02Geographic information
- 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
03Born in Yopal
- Camila Avella, Model and Miss Universe Colombia 2023
- Jeffry Romero, professional cyclist
04Climate
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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- Yopal-Casanare.jpg by Cámara de Comercio de Casanare, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cerro buena vista.jpg by Juan11211992, CC BY-SA 4.0
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