Bajo Baudó () is a municipality and town in the
Chocó Department
Chocó Department () is a department of the Pacific region of Colombia known for hosting the largest Afro-Colombian population in the nation, and a large population of Amerindian and mixed African-Amerindian Colombians. It is in the west of the ...
,
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
. It was founded in 1821 and converted into a municipality in 1825. Most of the town's population of 16,375 live in rural areas.
Climate
Bajo Baudó has a very wet
tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southeast Florida, United States ...
(Af) with very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall year-round.
External links
Official website
References
Municipalities of Chocó Department
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