Colonia Tovar - Geography

Geography

The Colonia Tovar is at almost 2,200 m in the central coastal mountains of the Venezuelan Coastal Range. It is connected with Caracas and La Victoria by road. Its climate is temperate mountain with daily thermal amplitudes of about 8 °C, with a mean of 16.8 °C, and frequent mists, especially at dawn and evening. The data on average temperature and rainfall amounts of Colonia Tovar month are:

• Location: Lat 10° 25 'N, Long 67º 18' W, altitude, 2,200 m
• Temperatures in °C: in January (6.7), February (8.1), March (10), April (11.5), May (12.3), June (13.7), July (14.2 ), August (13.9), September (12.6), October (10.3), November (7.9), December (7.1). Annual average temperature: 10.7 °C
• Rainfall in mm:' January (66) February (32) March (24) April (67), May (127), June (143), July (176), August (133), September (149), October (166) November (118) December (70). Amount annual rainfall: 1271 mm.

The city is located in the northern of Aragua state. The municipality has the shape of <>, and bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, the northeast by the state of Vargas, in the east Caracas (Libertador municipality) in the south bordering the Aragua River and east ends with the Santiago Mariño Municipality. The Colonia Tovar is settled in very rugged terrain with creeks and streams. Prevail mountain landscapes of misty appearance characteristic of the Venezuelan Coastal Range (an mountainous alignment against the Venezuelan coast of the Caribbean Sea), which is the greater height of Aragua state, the Codazzi peak of 2,429 meters, located north of the town. The cloud forest that characterizes the dominant vegetation changes as you lower rungs of the relief as gallery forest and ends with savanna weeds southward and xerophytic in the north sea. The colony is surrounded by houses (chalets) relatively far apart in many small plots of intensive use. It develops an intensive agriculture (horticultural, fruit growing) high productivity and profitability: flowers, strawberries, tomatoes, peaches, garlic, peaches and other temperate crops. Its are also installed ceramic craft workshops, sausage factories, cookies and candy, breweries, canned foods (jams, peaches, etc..), In addition to traditional agricultural activities that result in the marketing of vegetables, fruit, flowers, pork and its derivatives, etc..