Yopal

Yopal () is a municipality and capital city of the department of Casanare in Colombia and the second most populated and important city in the Orinoquía region after Villavicencio.

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Settlement.name: Yopal
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality and town
Settlement.image_caption: Top: Yopal from the Chamber of Commerce, Second: Cultural center, Third: El Alcaraván Airport, Four: Nunchía Avenue
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Yopal.svg
Settlement.image_seal: Escudo de Yopal.svg
Settlement.image_map: Colombia - Casanare - Yopal.svg
Settlement.mapsize: 250px
Settlement.map_caption: Location of the municipality and town of Yopal in the Casanare Department of Colombia.
Settlement.pushpin_map: Colombia
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Colombia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Orinoquía Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Department
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Casanare Department
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.established_date: 1915
Settlement.established_title1: Incorporated

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Wikidata facts

Population: 179355
Area: 2532
Elevation: 350
Official website: www.yopal-casanare.gov.co/index.shtml
Image: Panoramica de Yopal.jpg
Dialing code: 8

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P12749: Q45392
postal code: 850001–9
Commons category: Yopal
inception: 1915-00-00

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Born in Yopal
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Yopal () is a municipality and capital city of the department of Casanare in Colombia and the second most populated and important city in the Orinoquía region after Villavicencio.

== History == Before the period of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the land on which Yopal stands was occupied by the indigenous Achagua people. The name Yopal descends from the region's abundance of Anadenanthera peregrina, often otherwise called yopo. == Geographic information == left|thumb|269x269px|Skyline of Yopal from the Cerro Buena vista (Buena Vista Hill) Population: 191.133 inhabitants Elevation: Area: Distance from Bogotá: Median temperature: == Born in Yopal == Camila Avella, Model and Miss Universe Colombia 2023 Jeffry Romero, professional cyclist == Climate == Yopal has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). Although it borders closely on a tropical savanna climate (Aw), Yopal’s climate is much more typical of a tropical monsoon climate in having a short but distinct dry season that covers the months of December to March, and a very long wet season covering the remaining eight months.