A couple years ago, I lived for working purposes 6 month in an isolated part of the medium atrato region. When it rained, it was so loud under our tent you couldn't hear the person next to you speak! Definitely a magical place.
@@MayheM_646 1) Video talks about Choco as one of the rainiest places on earth. 2) Sharing my personal experience of this phenomenon on the internet. 3) What a strange question.
Definitions of the southern edge of the Chocó vary, but much of western Ecuador is really a continuation of these rainforests. Based on rainfall data alone, you wouldn’t expect most of this region to be as lush as it is. That’s because during the dry season, a thick fog (Garúa) sweeps in off the Humboldt/Peru current, keeping the forest cool and humid while it isn’t raining-reducing evaporation and plant stress. The resulting forests are called Garúa forests (a type of submontane cloud forest) for this reason. Although this air is very stable (no convection), the fog will still condense into mist when it’s lifted up even a slight mountain range or large hills. The driest areas, around Salinas and Mantas, are points jutting out into the Pacific with flatter terrain-they don’t slow or lift the Garúa-bearing southerly trade winds, and in the wet season they’re surrounded by convection-inhibiting cooler water. Rainfall decreases toward the Pacific coast in Ecuador, generally. Again, the exact parallel to this is found in from coastal NW Angola to Gabon, for all the same reasons.
yeah i absolutely loved that, actually best geography/history channel material; those who can see beyond the basic subject and link it to other complicated ones. best indication of intelligence
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You also forgot one detail, that the darién gap is located in this very rainforest and is the reason why the americas aren’t connected by road due to these conditions
Very good video! You are talented at explaining the role of climate in making unique places! The power of geography is made clear, and the material is quite appropriate for high school and even college classes. Thank you, Mr. Davis!
Outstanding production. Pointing out how conditions are similar where the geography is similar, allow us to improve our understanding of the forces that shape the world. Really loved the Palauan "abai" at 6:55. Palau is also in a unique ecological zone with relatively high rainfall and a comparatively low incidence of typhoons. Please keep up the great work.
I believe that part of the Colombia is called El Cielo Roto. Broken sky. I'm from Cali, Colombia, just on the other side of the mountains. My uncle had a little finca in Buenaventura and that's where I got malaria when I was five. That's some jungle out there boy. I was young, but I remember it like I was trecking through The Lost World.
@@piedrablanca1942el video está hecho para un público angloparlante y el comentario está dirigido para esa demografía. Entonces no pida que lo escriba en español porque no tiene ningún sentido
Last year I was in Leticia, Colombia, in September, at the River Amazon shore. Of the two weeks I was there it rained three of the days (to be fair it was a not-so-rainy season, dry season is practically non-existent there). Later, in October, I was in Buenaventura, in a village called Guapi (Cauca), in the Chocó region in Colombia, and in Sanquianga, a vast mangrove region also within the Chocó region. Of one week I was there it rained every day, one of those days it rained the 24 hours of it, with just a short break at noon, as if the clouds were gone to lunch and then, back to work. Yet, both Rainforests are the most beautiful things I've ever seen. 🇨🇴🌳🌿
Glad I subscribed. The origin of Choco's black population and why they survived. Wow! The same for the maroons everywhere, including Guyana and Jamaica, in fact most of the Caribbean islands with thick forests!
I didn't know that Colombia's west coast was so rainy. I knew about the Afro-Colombian concentration in the regions, but the region's weather singularity was clueless to me
According to an article on Weather Underground entitled "New Wettest Place on Earth Discovered?" by Christopher C. Burt, Puerto López de Micay in the Cauca Department, Pacifica Region, Colombia, is the wettest place on Earth, averaging 12,892.4 mm, or 507.57 inches, for the period of April 1960-February 2012. The Wikipedia article on López de Micay states that it receives 15,992.1 mm, or 629.6 inches of rainfall annually. This is absolutely incredible, to say the least! It would be interesting to know how people live there! How on Earth do they cope with all of that rain? Just wow!
Mountains inland of the island New Guinea could also be a contender as the rainfall data up there is theoretically gauged but according to a pilot I spoke to on some peaks it rains there basically 365 days of the year with no one there to monitor this. Interior is just set at between 5000 and 6000mm per year but it doesn't take into account the higher parts of the inland mountains.
The pacific region is the poorest in Colombia and possibly one of the poorest in the Americas, the amount of rainfall makes it difficult to build needed infrastructure. It’s also very disconnected from the rest of the country
@@manumanumanumaI'm Colombian and u forgot to mention the armed conflict we have between the military force and the guerrillas in the region of Chocó, in which the guerrillas took advantage of because of it's difficult access due to the amount of rain and vast dense forest.
This video was awesome im colombian and I've been at that forest before its beautiful there and there's fog very low where the mountains get really close to the coast
Love these presentations--the careful research and care for authenticity is appreciated. If there are any compelling reasons to cover the accomplishments of Alexander von Humboldt, whose work seems very much to intersect the interests of this series, I would be delighted to watch it. Having grown up near the confluence of several streams and rivers, I'm also intrigued with riparian flora and fauna. I've often wondered if they are the primary determinants of the surrounding biome's profile, or vice-versa.
Alexander Van Humboldt was indeed a fascinating individual---I have a lot of videos planned for the future, but I could definitely visit his biography. And I agree with you, riparian ecosystems are probably what fascinates me most---along with the human history of our interaction with rivers. Northern South America has some particularly interesting rivers---for instance, the Orinoco. There are many things I could say about it.
@@casualearth-dandavis Thanks! Anything you cover will be interesting to me. I'm currently looking for a nice edition of Humboldt's "Cosmos." They're hard to find--His compelling, heroic character doesn't seem to inspire much veneration in America.
It's nothin but the wettest Neotropical region in the whole world, u can be sure there finna be a lot of mosquitos and insects. By the way, this is the only region in the world where u can find the Golden Dart Frog (Phyllobates), can't live anywhere else since this species need more than 95% of daily humidity and this is the only place that can have that or above every day.
I lived in Choco for most of a year, and surprisingly (to most people), mosquitoes are not nearly as abundant there as in other places such as those with more seasonal precipitation (South Florida), secondary forest, and mosaics of agriculture (with many large and small water impoundments) and other vegetation. Also in the far north: think Canada, Siberia, Alaska (state bird). But there are a lot of interesting and even beautiful mosquito species in Choco. Very diverse, as are most other groups of organisms. That said, although there aren't all that many mosquitoes, some of them do carry diseases you really do not want to get, so keeping covered up and using repellent is prudent.
If you have a lot of rain and moving water you get less mosquitoes, since they can only lay eggs that survive in stagnant water. I'm in a dry area of Spain and many more mosquitoes than ten years in Costa Rica.
When I was doin research in Choco (Ecuador), I surprisingly had no issues with mosquitos- not even sand flies. There’s a lot of bats and other insects that eat blood suckers I bet. I got absolutely eaten by mosquitoes when I went back to Georgia, haha.
That was really interesting!! 🧐 thank you! 🇨🇴 I never knew much about the rainforest on the pacific side of Colombia. I love the labeled animal pictures and I appreciate that you said “consider” subscribing! I shall indeed! Cheers 🥂 to you! :)
5:38 I don't think a poisonous animal is more dangerous than an apex predator. Frogs will do nothing to you unless ingest or absorb their poison through your skin, jaguars can prey on humans if they have the opportunity.
@@casualearth-dandavis Absolutely true, we're just too good at using tools and weapons to be hunted. I'd argue that insects are the deadliest animals to humans in these regions, especially mosquitoes. Getting malaria, dengue or yellow fever in the middle of the rainforest is no fun.
Great video, i’ve been bingeing this channel lately. One note: there is an emphasis on the second o in Chocó as seen by the accent mark, so it’s pronounced less like Choke-oh more like choke-OH
hi just wanted to say that i’m always very apprehensive click on a video about the global south from a channel that sounds like it’s some white guy talking over pictures of maps, but i was very pleasantly surprised by the respect and agency with which you spoke about enslaved africans and particularly maroon societies. i encourage you to keep making a point of expanding the thoughtful consideration you give to Black and Indigenous people in your videos!
I know exactly what you mean. I am no anthropologist (as you can tell by my mispronunciations), but I am always interested in the lives of indigenous people. Thank you for watching.
Loving this channel. Would you ever consider a video on Thrace along the Black Sea and all the warring that happened with the Roman Empire? A forgotten region often overshadowed by teachings about the Romans and Byzantines instead.
I agree that’s a fascinating and overlooked region, and I do have some notes on it-mostly on the climate, Holocene Panthera leo, Black Sea storms, the spread of the griculture, and some other tidbits. Aside from the Via Egnatia, I don’t know much about the Roman history there, but I could imagine it’d be fascinating. I meant to reply to this comment a week ago-my mistake.
Reunion island southeastern rainforest have the world records from rainfall from 6h to 2 weeks periods, rainforest above sainte rose receive around 14m of precipitation annually. Some places in higher altitude probably get more (some estimate up to 20m but there isn't any weatherstation there). And there is no dry season here. So it may be small, but it is without any doubt this place that holds the tilte for the rainiest rainforest on earth.... at least untill we discover some other rainier forest.
Excellent video, it is interesting to understand these hotspots of life on Earth. Close to my home, there is one of these, called Jureia Forest. Unfortunatelly, I see that amazing paradise but at the same time I get a little nervous about human exploration of close areas. We should change the way we live, humanity should live in tribes again, we must find a way.
How come there are Ecuatorial westerlies? I always thought that trade winds from the northern and the southern hemisphere tended to be drawn to the west and thus when they met ar the Ecuator create winds that would flow East ro West. How is it possible for them to reverse direction?
There are equatorial westerlies in a number of places, especially near or over large continents. The model you're talking about is a vast oversimplification of tropical climate, and that pattern is really only consistent over the middle of the Pacific. As this video discusses, trade winds are attracted to the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The ITCZ is centered over the area with the most heat energy (rapidly rising air), so it moves with seasons over hot continents. As the trade winds rush toward it, they curve due to the coriolis force (to the right of their intended path in the northern hemisphere, and to the left of their intended path in the southern hemisphere). When the ITCZ is over the equator, they will move just as you describe--they will curve into easterly winds. However, if the ITCZ is north of the equator, for instance, the winds which cross the equator to reach it will curve into westerly winds due to the reversal of the coriolis force. As the video discusses, cool water off of Peru and Ecuador keeps the ITCZ north of the equator in that area year-round, so winds are always curving into equatorial westerlies and slamming into Colombia's Pacific coast. This same exact phenomenon happens in the South Atlantic near Africa. The Benguela current keeps the ITCZ near Gabon for much of the year.
My dream is to explore remote areas right there. 😮😍 For those all interested, I recommend Alwin Gentry work for a botanical perspective on the Chocó. Thanks for this great content. Best wishes to all. 🙏
No, that region of Colombia is full of drug traffickers and armed groups. Inf fact, Buenaventura it's the main hub for cocaine exports to the USA through the pacific ocean
A rainforest is identified by daily downpour if it lacks that factor, like in parts of India it is classified as djungle. Many get these 2 biotops wrong.
A couple years ago, I lived for working purposes 6 month in an isolated part of the medium atrato region. When it rained, it was so loud under our tent you couldn't hear the person next to you speak! Definitely a magical place.
But what has that to do with this video or the Chocó region?
@@MayheM_646 1) Video talks about Choco as one of the rainiest places on earth. 2) Sharing my personal experience of this phenomenon on the internet. 3) What a strange question.
@@MemoTea Why is it strange? It literally has nothin to do with the Chocó.
@@MayheM_646the Atrato river is located on the Choco region.
I also been there, one of the most stunning places I have been ever to
@@MayheM_646your account is 11 years old and somehow don’t understand the comment section
First time I've seen content in english talking about the forest where I belong, my birthplace. Thank you for this, truly.
Definitions of the southern edge of the Chocó vary, but much of western Ecuador is really a continuation of these rainforests. Based on rainfall data alone, you wouldn’t expect most of this region to be as lush as it is. That’s because during the dry season, a thick fog (Garúa) sweeps in off the Humboldt/Peru current, keeping the forest cool and humid while it isn’t raining-reducing evaporation and plant stress. The resulting forests are called Garúa forests (a type of submontane cloud forest) for this reason. Although this air is very stable (no convection), the fog will still condense into mist when it’s lifted up even a slight mountain range or large hills. The driest areas, around Salinas and Mantas, are points jutting out into the Pacific with flatter terrain-they don’t slow or lift the Garúa-bearing southerly trade winds, and in the wet season they’re surrounded by convection-inhibiting cooler water. Rainfall decreases toward the Pacific coast in Ecuador, generally. Again, the exact parallel to this is found in from coastal NW Angola to Gabon, for all the same reasons.
This is a great channel.
Great work.
Does this also apply to islands in SE Indonesia that are affected by the cold West Australian Current?
The only place species of Platycerium live in that area 'Platycerium Andium"
No wonder we dont see Tropical Cyclones in South Atlantic as a result @casualearth9076 !
Wonderful video as always. Amazing how you can seamlessly move from the climate science to the niche history and anthro-geography.
yeah i absolutely loved that, actually best geography/history channel material; those who can see beyond the basic subject and link it to other complicated ones. best indication of intelligence
Outstanding video! Greetings from Tumaco, Colombia, at the southern portion of the Chocó region!
dang im in the most moderate weather place Southern Cali, until earthquakes hit at least, do you guys get earthquakes
@@AstralHiGH Yes, in Colombia we get tremors and earthquakes!
I grew up in a neighbouring state from Chocò, I learned really good facts that I was not aware of with this video. Thank you.💪🏽🇨🇴
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Im lying here, super high and with lower back pain but watching this video was very relaxing and informative. Keep it on dude!
I can confirm, being super high and watching nature documentals is very relaxing
Can also confirm.
Concur!!! For me, being out in it, is a whole different experience , especially stoned!!! I'd swear you can communicate with nature..... .
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Just so you know, IMO, you make truly award winning videos!! Lack of music is perfect!
I went to the choco rainforest in Ecuador 1 year ago and it was amazing
I went to the choco rainforest before you and it was even more amazing than when you were there
@@THERES_BEES_EVERYWHERE that's cool
Ive actually been here 4 years ago (somewhere near Nuqui). It was definitely an adventure to get there (small plane and taxi boat). And it was wet
You also forgot one detail, that the darién gap is located in this very rainforest and is the reason why the americas aren’t connected by road due to these conditions
Award winning!!! I think you do an outstanding job!!!
Glad I found this channel. Quality content as usual.
Very good video! You are talented at explaining the role of climate in making unique places! The power of geography is made clear, and the material is quite appropriate for high school and even college classes. Thank you, Mr. Davis!
Yeah , It amazed me to learn theres a rainforest with chocolate rain, should hace had tay zonday on
Outstanding production. Pointing out how conditions are similar where the geography is similar, allow us to improve our understanding of the forces that shape the world. Really loved the Palauan "abai" at 6:55. Palau is also in a unique ecological zone with relatively high rainfall and a comparatively low incidence of typhoons. Please keep up the great work.
I believe that part of the Colombia is called El Cielo Roto. Broken sky. I'm from Cali, Colombia, just on the other side of the mountains. My uncle had a little finca in Buenaventura and that's where I got malaria when I was five. That's some jungle out there boy. I was young, but I remember it like I was trecking through The Lost World.
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@@piedrablanca1942el video está hecho para un público angloparlante y el comentario está dirigido para esa demografía. Entonces no pida que lo escriba en español porque no tiene ningún sentido
@@piedrablanca1942bobazo ignorante
Greetings from Colombia
Fascinating, thank you.
3 times the rainfall of Manaus? That's shocking
Last year I was in Leticia, Colombia, in September, at the River Amazon shore. Of the two weeks I was there it rained three of the days (to be fair it was a not-so-rainy season, dry season is practically non-existent there). Later, in October, I was in Buenaventura, in a village called Guapi (Cauca), in the Chocó region in Colombia, and in Sanquianga, a vast mangrove region also within the Chocó region. Of one week I was there it rained every day, one of those days it rained the 24 hours of it, with just a short break at noon, as if the clouds were gone to lunch and then, back to work. Yet, both Rainforests are the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
🇨🇴🌳🌿
I always wondered about the Choco region. Thanks for putting this together.
Just found this channel and i love it
Glad I subscribed. The origin of Choco's black population and why they survived. Wow! The same for the maroons everywhere, including Guyana and Jamaica, in fact most of the Caribbean islands with thick forests!
This video was so refreshing for the mind
Beautiful forests, I like nice cool rains, thanks for saving the rain forests, beautiful God like bless you
I didn't know that Colombia's west coast was so rainy. I knew about the Afro-Colombian concentration in the regions, but the region's weather singularity was clueless to me
We must do our best to preserve the ecology of the Chocó rainforest region.
According to an article on Weather Underground entitled "New Wettest Place on Earth Discovered?" by Christopher C. Burt, Puerto López de Micay in the Cauca Department, Pacifica Region, Colombia, is the wettest place on Earth, averaging 12,892.4 mm, or 507.57 inches, for the period of April 1960-February 2012. The Wikipedia article on López de Micay states that it receives 15,992.1 mm, or 629.6 inches of rainfall annually. This is absolutely incredible, to say the least! It would be interesting to know how people live there! How on Earth do they cope with all of that rain? Just wow!
Mountains inland of the island New Guinea could also be a contender as the rainfall data up there is theoretically gauged but according to a pilot I spoke to on some peaks it rains there basically 365 days of the year with no one there to monitor this. Interior is just set at between 5000 and 6000mm per year but it doesn't take into account the higher parts of the inland mountains.
@@albertvanlingen7590 Same here in New Zealand with Fiordland.
The pacific region is the poorest in Colombia and possibly one of the poorest in the Americas, the amount of rainfall makes it difficult to build needed infrastructure. It’s also very disconnected from the rest of the country
@@manumanumanumaYes, it is partially right. A deeper problem came with corruption and an armed conflict for decades.
@@manumanumanumaI'm Colombian and u forgot to mention the armed conflict we have between the military force and the guerrillas in the region of Chocó, in which the guerrillas took advantage of because of it's difficult access due to the amount of rain and vast dense forest.
This video was awesome im colombian and I've been at that forest before its beautiful there and there's fog very low where the mountains get really close to the coast
Love these presentations--the careful research and care for authenticity is appreciated.
If there are any compelling reasons to cover the accomplishments of Alexander von Humboldt, whose work seems very much to intersect the interests of this series, I would be delighted to watch it.
Having grown up near the confluence of several streams and rivers, I'm also intrigued with riparian flora and fauna. I've often wondered if they are the primary determinants of the surrounding biome's profile, or vice-versa.
Alexander Van Humboldt was indeed a fascinating individual---I have a lot of videos planned for the future, but I could definitely visit his biography. And I agree with you, riparian ecosystems are probably what fascinates me most---along with the human history of our interaction with rivers. Northern South America has some particularly interesting rivers---for instance, the Orinoco. There are many things I could say about it.
@@casualearth-dandavis Thanks! Anything you cover will be interesting to me.
I'm currently looking for a nice edition of Humboldt's "Cosmos." They're hard to find--His compelling, heroic character doesn't seem to inspire much veneration in America.
Hace tres años, realmente hermoso. Ballenas avistadas a 500 metros de la costa.
I can feel the mosquitos through my screen
It's nothin but the wettest Neotropical region in the whole world, u can be sure there finna be a lot of mosquitos and insects. By the way, this is the only region in the world where u can find the Golden Dart Frog (Phyllobates), can't live anywhere else since this species need more than 95% of daily humidity and this is the only place that can have that or above every day.
I lived in Choco for most of a year, and surprisingly (to most people), mosquitoes are not nearly as abundant there as in other places such as those with more seasonal precipitation (South Florida), secondary forest, and mosaics of agriculture (with many large and small water impoundments) and other vegetation. Also in the far north: think Canada, Siberia, Alaska (state bird). But there are a lot of interesting and even beautiful mosquito species in Choco. Very diverse, as are most other groups of organisms. That said, although there aren't all that many mosquitoes, some of them do carry diseases you really do not want to get, so keeping covered up and using repellent is prudent.
If you have a lot of rain and moving water you get less mosquitoes, since they can only lay eggs that survive in stagnant water. I'm in a dry area of Spain and many more mosquitoes than ten years in Costa Rica.
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When I was doin research in Choco (Ecuador), I surprisingly had no issues with mosquitos- not even sand flies. There’s a lot of bats and other insects that eat blood suckers I bet.
I got absolutely eaten by mosquitoes when I went back to Georgia, haha.
Great video. I travelled there, almost 40 years ago, then took a small boat from Quibdó to Turbo in the Golfo de Urabá.
This channel is so cool, it deserves more subscribers
Greetings from, Buenaventura, Colombia. Another rainy place on the pacific coast!!
That was really interesting!! 🧐 thank you! 🇨🇴 I never knew much about the rainforest on the pacific side of Colombia. I love the labeled animal pictures and I appreciate that you said “consider” subscribing! I shall indeed! Cheers 🥂 to you! :)
Thank you! I’ve been trying to research and read about my beautiful country. You answered all my questions. 🙏🙏🙏
This video was crazy good. Thanks so much for creating this.
Very nice video. Hopefully your channel blows up pretty soon.
Very good video. I love how you bring in the power of geography to explain human cultural patterns.
Love it. What a cool fragile amazing ball we live on…
Looking forward to the next one
Another great video. Thank you for this. Fantastic channel, what a find!
What an outstanding channel, every single one of your videos is purely captivating, just perfection.
Thank you
I heard that the choco taco is back at taco bell. I'd like to think this video saved it. Thank you for your dedication and diligence.
I learned so much from this. Thank you so mucg
Great video, +1 ♥
That Toucan was so cute!
Cool to see the Moskito coast mentioned
Great video. Nice presentation. Very sophisticated. Great work
New subscriber here! Your content is v informative and well presented. Thanks for sharing!
Great program. A story well researched an told. I like your cadence and no-nonsense style. Happy to subscribe for more.
Well done. Thank you.
Really interesting video highlighting a lesser known but nonetheless very unique region!
Very interesting. Thank you for this video I enjoyed listening!
Fun fact … in Choco is considered one of the best parts to buy Gold in Colombia… the gold is considered of high quality…
I really enjoyed that. Thanks!
5:38 I don't think a poisonous animal is more dangerous than an apex predator. Frogs will do nothing to you unless ingest or absorb their poison through your skin, jaguars can prey on humans if they have the opportunity.
Definitely true, though Jaguars also don't have a lot of negative human interactions (mostly with livestock).
@@casualearth-dandavis Absolutely true, we're just too good at using tools and weapons to be hunted. I'd argue that insects are the deadliest animals to humans in these regions, especially mosquitoes. Getting malaria, dengue or yellow fever in the middle of the rainforest is no fun.
Excellent video on the Chocó region. Thanks for this!
Absolutely fascinating video
Great video, i’ve been bingeing this channel lately. One note: there is an emphasis on the second o in Chocó as seen by the accent mark, so it’s pronounced less like Choke-oh more like choke-OH
This is such a good informative channel.
Great video thank you
I hear Donkey Kong lives here, which is why he got so pissed when K. Rool took his bananas, because he's gotta go all the way down south to get more.
Great video, this really makes me want to visit Columbia.
Colombia, bro
Colombia* little ignorant 🙄
@@MayheM_646meanwhile, you genius latinos write and say "Nueva York" like that’s acceptable
hi just wanted to say that i’m always very apprehensive click on a video about the global south from a channel that sounds like it’s some white guy talking over pictures of maps, but i was very pleasantly surprised by the respect and agency with which you spoke about enslaved africans and particularly maroon societies. i encourage you to keep making a point of expanding the thoughtful consideration you give to Black and Indigenous people in your videos!
I know exactly what you mean. I am no anthropologist (as you can tell by my mispronunciations), but I am always interested in the lives of indigenous people. Thank you for watching.
love your vids !!
Loving this channel. Would you ever consider a video on Thrace along the Black Sea and all the warring that happened with the Roman Empire? A forgotten region often overshadowed by teachings about the Romans and Byzantines instead.
I agree that’s a fascinating and overlooked region, and I do have some notes on it-mostly on the climate, Holocene Panthera leo, Black Sea storms, the spread of the griculture, and some other tidbits. Aside from the Via Egnatia, I don’t know much about the Roman history there, but I could imagine it’d be fascinating. I meant to reply to this comment a week ago-my mistake.
Reunion island southeastern rainforest have the world records from rainfall from 6h to 2 weeks periods, rainforest above sainte rose receive around 14m of precipitation annually. Some places in higher altitude probably get more (some estimate up to 20m but there isn't any weatherstation there). And there is no dry season here. So it may be small, but it is without any doubt this place that holds the tilte for the rainiest rainforest on earth.... at least untill we discover some other rainier forest.
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Fantastic video. I’m curious though, what is the name of the piece of artwork shown at 8:00? It’s very evocative.
great video. I lived for two years nearby the area is stunning and you can tell it is unique on earth
Oh wow the painting at 8:00 looks so beautiful, does anybody know its name?
Excellent video, it is interesting to understand these hotspots of life on Earth. Close to my home, there is one of these, called Jureia Forest. Unfortunatelly, I see that amazing paradise but at the same time I get a little nervous about human exploration of close areas. We should change the way we live, humanity should live in tribes again, we must find a way.
0:40 Correction the wettest place on earth is the ocean
What a great video
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I love this video thank you
I love this shit, where did this come from, UA-cam? Thanks
How come there are Ecuatorial westerlies?
I always thought that trade winds from the northern and the southern hemisphere tended to be drawn to the west and thus when they met ar the Ecuator create winds that would flow East ro West. How is it possible for them to reverse direction?
There are equatorial westerlies in a number of places, especially near or over large continents. The model you're talking about is a vast oversimplification of tropical climate, and that pattern is really only consistent over the middle of the Pacific. As this video discusses, trade winds are attracted to the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The ITCZ is centered over the area with the most heat energy (rapidly rising air), so it moves with seasons over hot continents. As the trade winds rush toward it, they curve due to the coriolis force (to the right of their intended path in the northern hemisphere, and to the left of their intended path in the southern hemisphere). When the ITCZ is over the equator, they will move just as you describe--they will curve into easterly winds. However, if the ITCZ is north of the equator, for instance, the winds which cross the equator to reach it will curve into westerly winds due to the reversal of the coriolis force. As the video discusses, cool water off of Peru and Ecuador keeps the ITCZ north of the equator in that area year-round, so winds are always curving into equatorial westerlies and slamming into Colombia's Pacific coast. This same exact phenomenon happens in the South Atlantic near Africa. The Benguela current keeps the ITCZ near Gabon for much of the year.
excellent presentation....
Excellent content! 😃
Fantastic I'm trying to get my kids to watch your Channel
You're very good mate
My dream is to explore remote areas right there. 😮😍 For those all interested, I recommend Alwin Gentry work for a botanical perspective on the Chocó. Thanks for this great content. Best wishes to all. 🙏
I fuck with the channel a lot, underrated af
The Mosquito Coast and the Dismal Swamp? Sign me up.
1:28 Reminds of the wettest place in North America being right next to the relatively dry, Mediterranean climate of Victoria BC
Great video
05:40 googled it and read the whole wikipedia page so interesting animal
Please pronounce correctly...it's Chocó and not Choco. I'm French-Colombian and I love this part of Colombia...beautiful topography.
Just found your channel. 👌👌
Isn't the 'Choco' region also a stronghold for Colombia's FARC guerrilla movement? Or is it even too wild and rugged for them?
if you look, most of the cities aren't guerrillas, just fill of african gangs drug trade and machete dismemberments.
No, that region of Colombia is full of drug traffickers and armed groups. Inf fact, Buenaventura it's the main hub for cocaine exports to the USA through the pacific ocean
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A rainforest is identified by daily downpour if it lacks that factor, like in parts of India it is classified as djungle. Many get these 2 biotops wrong.
Exactly, finally someone who knows about it 👍
If UA-cam channels were stocks, I'd be investing heavily in CE.
I like to see weather maps at WindyTv and I always notice that this region is very wet.
What's the name of the piece at 8:01?
excellent class
great video . even im from south america, i didnt have any idea of all this 😮
it’s odd that you go down the coast to where Peru begins and it suddenly becomes one of the driest places on earth
Please continue producing content. It is unique on youtube and extremely informational/entertaining!
UA-cam algorithm, push the channel to the masses!
Amazing
Meghalaya technically does have rainforests, there's just short dry season of few months but it rains most parts of the year
cho-CO, bro. Stress on the last syllable.