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El Choco, Colombia

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NUQUI - Wikipedia:
Nuquí is a municipality and town in the Chocó DepartmentColombia. The municipality of Nuquí is located in the department of Chocó in the Western part of Colombia between the mountainous area of Baudó and the Pacific Ocean. Nuquí has a great cultural diversity as well as a big variety of flora and fauna. Nuquí has 8.096 inhabitants, 3095 of which live in the municipal capital. The majority of the population are Afro-Colombians, another part of the population is represented by members of indigenous tribes. Nuquí was founded as a municipality in 1915, before it was a sub-division of the municipality Valle, Chocó

ABOUT  NUQUI, El Choco:
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The Colombian Pacific coast is a unique place on the planet, occupying the second place with the greatest biodiversity on the planet. Its extensive coastal area populated with abundant solitudes, shelters in its incredible beauty a virgin land where until time it has been seduced and abandoned in this lost paradise.

The Embera Katíos indigenous people live in this territory with descendants of African races who emigrated more than 400 years ago. The Emberá, with their humble, simple and introverted spirit, largely translate the silence that this place whispers in our ear. The black race, descended from African slaves who escaped the savagery of the Spanish at the time of the conquest, found in this area the germination of a new Africa, and brought with them the rhythm, the unalterable joy and the enormous strength that characterizes them. . The black race lives with the Embera and today, faithful to the harmony that this land professes, they continue to live together in peace.

With the new arrival of other cultures, the ties of cooperation must be strengthened. Health, education and the strengthening of identity are keys so that these inhabitants can overcome and prepare for the voracious modern world. Here all the inhabitants of the world will meet united by the same spirit of goodness and beauty, and in this way they will compose the most valuable treasure of spaces: its people.

UTRIA NATIONAL PARK
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The Utría National Natural Park (SpanishParque Nacional Natural Ensenada de Utría) is a national park in the Chocó Department, Colombia. It contains diverse flora and fauna in a lush, mountainous rainforest environment with some of the highest rainfall in the world, at up to 10,000 millimetres (390 in) annually. The park also protects the coastal marine environment, and is known for visits by humpback whales, who give birth in the lagoon after which the park is named, and sea turtles who nest on the beaches. 

Marine Environment:
There are coral reefs along the shore that contain 11 of the 16 species of coral recorded in the Pacific region, about 81 species of mollusks have been reported, including Eastern Pacific giant conch and ark clams which provide food to the local communities. There are over 180 species of fish ranging from tiny goby fish to the huge whale shark.

Sea turtles come to the beaches in nesting season. The olive ridley sea turtle is the most common turtle nesting on the Cuevita beach, and there are sporadic records of other turtles such as leatherback sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle and green sea turtleCommon bottlenose dolphin and oceanic dolphins of the genus Stenella are present year round. Occasional visitors include sperm whale, killer whale and Risso's dolphin. Humpback whales visit from June to November. They use Utría Cove to give birth from August to October.

Forest Environment
Trees in the park include timber species as cohíba, the symbol of the Chocó Department,used for building coastal boats and used by the black and indigenous communities for making crafts. There are also palms such as chontaduro and mil pesos that are important sources of food for the local populations, and iraca which is used to make crafts. There are various medicinal plants, and seven of the ten species of mangroves found on the Colombian Pacific coast.

Fauna in the forest include jaguarcougarbrocket deerwhite-lipped peccarycollared peccarymantled howlerblack-headed spider monkeygiant anteater, brown-throated slothlowland paca and Central American agouti.

there are many reptiles and amphibians. There are about 380 species of birds in all strata of the forest, a very high level of diversity.

WEATHER
Compliments of Weather & Climate

Here are some average weather facts we collected from our historical climate data:

  • On average, the temperatures are always high.

  • A lot of rain (rainy season) falls in the month of: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.

  • The warmest month is July with an average maximum temperature of 31°C (87°F).

  • The coldest month is September with an average maximum temperature of 29°C (84°F).

  • August is the most wet month. This month should be avoided if you are not a big fan of rain.

  • February is the driest month.