Lospalos
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Lospalos | |
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City | |
Lautém | |
Administrative post | Lospalos |
Area | |
• Total | 623.93 km2 (240.90 sq mi) |
Elevation | 346 m (1,135 ft) |
Population (2015 census) | |
• Total | 12,665 |
• Density | 20/km2 (53/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+09:00 (TLT) |
Climate | Aw |
Lospalos — sometimes erroneously written as Los Palos, assuming a nonexistent Spanish etymology — is a city in East Timor, 248 kilometres (154 mi) to the east of Dili, the national capital. Lospalos has a population of 17,186 (2006) and is the capital of Lautém Municipality and the Lospalos Administrative Post. The subdistrict has a population of 25,417 (2004).
Internationally, "Lospalos" is mistakenly spelled as Los Palos, suggesting a
Tetum and Portuguese
, the official languages of East Timor, is Lospalos.
Lospalos is the birth city of the co-founder and president of the party
APODETI, Frederico Almeida Santos Costa
.
Climate
Lospalos has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) with a dry season from August to October and a wet season covering the remaining nine months.
Climate data for Lospalos | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.2 (84.6) |
29.0 (84.2) |
29.4 (84.9) |
29.3 (84.7) |
28.3 (82.9) |
27.5 (81.5) |
27.3 (81.1) |
27.9 (82.2) |
29.5 (85.1) |
30.9 (87.6) |
31.2 (88.2) |
30.4 (86.7) |
29.2 (84.5) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.8 (78.4) |
25.6 (78.1) |
25.6 (78.1) |
25.3 (77.5) |
24.4 (75.9) |
23.6 (74.5) |
23.1 (73.6) |
23.2 (73.8) |
24.3 (75.7) |
25.4 (77.7) |
26.4 (79.5) |
26.3 (79.3) |
24.9 (76.8) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.5 (72.5) |
22.2 (72.0) |
21.8 (71.2) |
21.4 (70.5) |
20.6 (69.1) |
19.7 (67.5) |
19.0 (66.2) |
18.6 (65.5) |
19.1 (66.4) |
19.9 (67.8) |
21.7 (71.1) |
22.3 (72.1) |
20.7 (69.3) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 216 (8.5) |
214 (8.4) |
220 (8.7) |
234 (9.2) |
283 (11.1) |
186 (7.3) |
89 (3.5) |
21 (0.8) |
7 (0.3) |
19 (0.7) |
81 (3.2) |
209 (8.2) |
1,779 (69.9) |
Source: Climate-Data.org[1] |
Sport
Football
References
- ^ "Climate: Lospalos". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
External links
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