Colombia has a variety of weather patterns due to its changing elevations and locations. This diversity results in temperatures ranging from hot on the coasts to freezing in the mountains. The variable climate influences vegetation, wildlife, and culture across regions. Colombia contains warm, temperate, cold, and paramo temperature zones. Its tropical climate also varies between jungle, wet, savanna, and desert conditions. This weather variety provides opportunities for diverse agriculture, businesses, and tourism that can help reduce poverty in Colombia.

2. In Colombia there are not seasons as in
others countries, but the relief makes the
lands have a variable temperature. This is
a competitive advantage for us in
comparison to other regions and
countries.

3. This temperature variation has an
influence on the vegetation, the fauna and
the socio-cultural part of the people, which
means diversity in clothes, food and
costumes.

4. Colombian’s weather variety ranges from
very hot temperatures in the coast and
plains, to extreme cold temperatures in
the top of mountains and glaciers.

5. Colombia has all the thermal flours:
Thermal Flours Heigh (meters Temperature % of Colombia
above sea (degrees
level) Celsius)
Warm < 1.000 >24°C 80%
Temperate 1.000 – 2.000 17°C and 24°C 10%
Cold 2.000 – 3.000 12°C and 17°C 8%
Paramo 3.000 < 12°C 2%

6. Colombia has a tropical humid weather
with 4 varieties:
Jungle – Super humid: Amazonía,
pacific coast, Magdalena and Catatumbo
Wet: Caquetá, Vaupés, a little part of
Antioquia and Córdoba

7. Savanna climate: Orinoquía, Bolívar,
Huila and Valle del Cauca
Desert climate: Guajira and
Candelaria desert in Boyacá

8. Some places are very characteristic
of the weather in Colombia:
The snowcapped mountain,
Nevado del Ruiz: it’s Covered by
glacier that has been disappearing
because of the heating of the
atmosphere. The temperature
fluctuates between 14°C and 3°C.
It’s at 5.400 meters above the sea
level.

9. The Amazonía:
It has warm humid weather.
Throughout the year there are
constant rains and there is not dry
weather. The temperature fluctuates
between 25°C and 26°C.

10. Chocó: it is the area of the highest
rainfall around the globe.
Guajira: it is the driest area of
Colombia; it only rains between
September and December.

11. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta:
It’s the highest coastal mountain in
the world. It´s the highest mountain
in Colombia, it has a temperature of
zero degrees or less at the peaks.

12. The weather variety makes Colombia a
privileged country, that people should use
for their entrepreneurial projects
(agriculture, cattle, energy, tourism) to
improve living standards and to reduce
poverty.
Colombia is a wonderful country!