Las Matas de Farfán
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Las Matas de Farfán | ||
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Municipal Districts 2 |
Las Matas de Farfán is a town in the
Odalis Perez, Ramón Santiago, and Valerio de los Santos. During the 1822–44 Haitian occupation, the town was officially designated as Las-Mathas.[3][4]
The Furnia de Catanamatias, in the mountain range above the town, is the deepest cave in the Dominican republic (380m).[5]
Climate
Las Matas de Farfán has a
Diurnal temperature variation is very large for the Caribbean
.Climate data for Las Matas de Farfán (1961–1990) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 37.8 (100.0) |
38.8 (101.8) |
38.0 (100.4) |
39.0 (102.2) |
38.5 (101.3) |
38.5 (101.3) |
38.7 (101.7) |
38.5 (101.3) |
38.2 (100.8) |
38.2 (100.8) |
38.0 (100.4) |
38.3 (100.9) |
39.0 (102.2) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.1 (88.0) |
31.9 (89.4) |
33.0 (91.4) |
33.6 (92.5) |
33.5 (92.3) |
34.2 (93.6) |
34.5 (94.1) |
34.4 (93.9) |
33.5 (92.3) |
32.4 (90.3) |
31.3 (88.3) |
30.4 (86.7) |
32.8 (91.0) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 15.7 (60.3) |
16.2 (61.2) |
17.3 (63.1) |
18.3 (64.9) |
19.2 (66.6) |
19.6 (67.3) |
19.2 (66.6) |
19.3 (66.7) |
19.2 (66.6) |
19.0 (66.2) |
17.7 (63.9) |
15.9 (60.6) |
18.0 (64.4) |
Record low °C (°F) | 9.3 (48.7) |
10.3 (50.5) |
10.5 (50.9) |
12.0 (53.6) |
14.0 (57.2) |
13.0 (55.4) |
15.0 (59.0) |
15.5 (59.9) |
15.2 (59.4) |
11.0 (51.8) |
11.8 (53.2) |
9.5 (49.1) |
9.3 (48.7) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 9.1 (0.36) |
10.0 (0.39) |
35.0 (1.38) |
104.3 (4.11) |
164.5 (6.48) |
109.7 (4.32) |
82.8 (3.26) |
125.2 (4.93) |
150.1 (5.91) |
154.1 (6.07) |
53.6 (2.11) |
13.3 (0.52) |
1,011.7 (39.83) |
Average rainy days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 1.1 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 7.3 | 11.1 | 7.1 | 6.5 | 8.7 | 10.2 | 10.7 | 4.4 | 2.0 | 73.6 |
Source: NOAA[6]
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References
- ^ Superficies a nivel de municipios, Oficina Nacional de Estadistica Archived 2009-04-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Censo 2012 de Población y Vivienda, Oficina Nacional de Estadistica
- ^ "Relation: Las Matas de Farfán (7400868)". OpenStreetMap. 2024-04-03. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
- ^ "PDF oficial del gobierno de República Dominicana" (PDF).
- ^ Bozzer, Luigino; Muscio, Giuseppe (1989). "Haitises 1988". Mondo Sotterraneo. XIII: 11–28.
- ^ "Las M. Farfan Climate Normals 1961-1990". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved September 18, 2016.