Manaure, La Guajira
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Manaure | |
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Town | |
 Salt mines in Manaure, La Guajira | |
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 Location of the town and municipality of Manaure in the Department of La Guajira. | |
  Manaure | |
| Coordinates: 11°46′45″N 72°26′58″W / 11.77917°N 72.44944°W | |
| Country |  Colombia |
| Region | Caribbean |
| Department | La Guajira |
| Founded | 1723 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Humberto Martinez Fajardo (C)[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,971 km2 (761 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3 m (9.8 ft) |
| Population (2019 est.[2]) | |
• Total | 120,417 |
| • Density | 61.09/km2 (158.2/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Manaurero |
| Time zone | UTC-5 |
| Area code | 57 + 5 |
| Climate | BWh |
| Website | Official website (in Spanish) |
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Manaure or Salinas de Manaure is a town and municipality located in the Colombian Department of La Guajira. Manaure's main economic activity is the exploitation of the vast amounts of salt in the area.
Climate
The municipality of Manaure is located in northernmost part of South America, on the arid plains of the Guajira Peninsula, in the Colombian Caribbean region, bordering to the north with the Caribbean Sea to the east with the municipality of Uribia; to the south with the municipality of Maicao and to the west with the municipality of Riohacha.[3]
The municipality of Manaure is within the Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub with water streams determined by precipitations during the rainy seasons. The municipality seat of Manaure is crossed by the Limón Creek which flows into the Caribbean sea. The coastline has high concentration of salt, rocks and clay over predominantly flat plains, slightly undulated in some areas.[3]
Manaure has a hot arid climate (Köppen BWh) owing to its extremely high evaporation rates, despite receiving over 375 millimetres or 15 inches of rain in an average year. The weather is hot and dry throughout the year, averaging between 28 °C (82 °F) and 38 °C (100 °F) throughout the year with constant northeastern trade winds meaning evaporation and humidity are high. The area has a rainy season from August to November averaging around three-quarters of the annual rainfall, and also a shorter season of light rains during the month of May, with very little rain occurring in the remainder of the year.[4]
| Climate data for Manaure, elevation 1 m (3.3 ft), (1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 32.3 (90.1) |
32.4 (90.3) |
32.6 (90.7) |
32.7 (90.9) |
33.4 (92.1) |
34.6 (94.3) |
35.0 (95.0) |
34.7 (94.5) |
33.8 (92.8) |
33.0 (91.4) |
32.6 (90.7) |
32.5 (90.5) |
33.3 (91.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 28.1 (82.6) |
28.0 (82.4) |
28.1 (82.6) |
28.5 (83.3) |
29.1 (84.4) |
29.9 (85.8) |
30.1 (86.2) |
29.4 (84.9) |
29.2 (84.6) |
28.7 (83.7) |
28.7 (83.7) |
28.3 (82.9) |
28.8 (83.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 23.9 (75.0) |
24.0 (75.2) |
24.4 (75.9) |
24.3 (75.7) |
24.7 (76.5) |
25.3 (77.5) |
25.0 (77.0) |
25.0 (77.0) |
25.1 (77.2) |
24.7 (76.5) |
24.4 (75.9) |
24.1 (75.4) |
24.6 (76.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.7 (0.15) |
2.9 (0.11) |
6.1 (0.24) |
19.1 (0.75) |
39.9 (1.57) |
14.1 (0.56) |
11.4 (0.45) |
33.6 (1.32) |
58.4 (2.30) |
114.1 (4.49) |
68.1 (2.68) |
22.2 (0.87) |
382.2 (15.05) |
| Average precipitation days | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 36 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 74 | 74 | 75 | 74 | 73 | 69 | 67 | 71 | 73 | 76 | 74 | 75 | 73 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 235.6 | 203.3 | 217.0 | 186.0 | 201.5 | 231.0 | 235.6 | 248.0 | 213.0 | 195.3 | 201.0 | 207.7 | 2,575 |
| Mean daily sunshine hours | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 6.3 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 7.1 |
| Source: Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales[5] | |||||||||||||
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