Nuquí

Chocó Department · Colombia

Nuquí, Colombia
Photo: Laura Cahnspeyer, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
July to October (whale season)
Budget
$$
Accessibility
not-accessible
Coordinates
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A remote Pacific coast settlement in the biodiversity-rich Chocó department, Nuquí and the surrounding area of Bahía Solano represent one of the most biodiverse coastal zones in the world. Humpback whales gather in the warm waters between July and October to calve and nurse. The surrounding jungle receives among the highest annual rainfall on Earth and is traversed by rivers that drain into surf-beaten black-sand beaches.

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