Qualla: Tutunendo https://qualla.com/tutunendo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tutunendo https://qualla.com/tutunendo Tutunendo: Introduction https://qualla.com/tutunendo/ Somewhere around 11,770 millimeters. That is how much rain falls on Tutunendo in an average year -- nearly 12 meters of water pouring from the sky onto a small village of a few hundred people in Colombia's Choco Department. To put that number in perspective, London receives about 600 millimeters annually. Seattle, famously gray, gets roughly 950. Tutunendo receives more than twelve times Seattle's total, making it one of the wettest inhabited places on the planet and a contender for the wettest place on Earth, rivaling Mawsynram and Cherrapunji in India's Meghalaya state.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/3/1/8/tutunendo-wp/d318-tutunendo-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tutunendo: The Deluge Capital https://qualla.com/tutunendo/ Tutunendo sits just 14 kilometers from Quibdo, the capital of Choco Department, along the road that connects Quibdo to Medellin. Its climate is classified as extremely wet tropical rainforest (Koppen Af), and the rain is relentless -- not the brief afternoon downpours of most tro...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/3/1/8/tutunendo-wp/d318-tutunendo-the-deluge-capital.mp3 0:06 2 full Tutunendo: Life in Liquid https://qualla.com/tutunendo/ Despite -- or perhaps because of -- its extraordinary wetness, Tutunendo's residents have built a way of life attuned to water. The local economy revolves around agriculture, fishing, mineral extraction, and timber harvesting, all activities that depend on the rain rather than me...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/3/1/8/tutunendo-wp/d318-tutunendo-life-in-liquid.mp3 0:06 3 full Tutunendo: The Choco's Living Laboratory https://qualla.com/tutunendo/ Scientists have long been drawn to Tutunendo and the broader Choco-Darien region for research into how extreme rainfall shapes ecosystems. The humid rainforest here is not simply wet -- it is a biodiversity hotspot where endemic species thrive in conditions too punishing for most...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/3/1/8/tutunendo-wp/d318-tutunendo-the-chocos-living-laboratory.mp3 0:06 4 full Tutunendo: A Record Always in Dispute https://qualla.com/tutunendo/ The title of "wettest place on Earth" is surprisingly contested. Official records have bounced between Mawsynram in India, Cherrapunji (also in India), and several locations in Colombia's Choco Department. Tutunendo's average annual rainfall of approximately 11,770 millimeters pl...

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