page_title: Cordillera Oriental montane forests
section_title: Climate
hierarchical_section_title: Cordillera Oriental montane forests / Geography / Climate
caption_attribution_description: English: Köppen climate types of Sierra de Perijá (Venezuelan Andes) Español: Tipos de clima (según Köppen) en la Sierra de Perijá (Andes Venezolanos)
context_page_description: The Cordillera Oriental montane forests is an ecoregion in Venezuela and Colombia along the east slopes of the eastern cordillera of the Andes.
  The extensive region of submontane and montane forests includes distinctive flora and fauna in the north, center and southern sections.
  The ecoregion is home to numerous endemic species of fauna.
  Despite extensive changes due to logging, farming and ranching, large areas of the original habitat remain intact, and the ecoregion has rich biodiversity.
context_section_description: The Köppen climate classification is "Cfb": warm temperate, fully humid, warm summer.
  At a sample location at coordinates 5.75°N 73.25°W mean monthly temperatures vary little throughout the year, ranging from 11.7 °C (53.1 °F) to 13 °C (55 °F).
  Yearly total rainfall is about 900 millimetres (35 in).
  Monthly rainfall varies from 25.2 millimetres (0.99 in) in January to 104.8 millimetres (4.13 in) in April, drops to 55.2 millimetres (2.17 in) in August and rises to 135.3 millimetres (5.33 in) in October.
caption: Koppen climate in the Venezuelan section
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