The atmosphere, while tropical in many territories

history channel documentary The atmosphere, while tropical in many territories, can shift to extremes.Summer months from June through August can be mercilessly hot in a few regions and unseasonably cool in others. You'll require a sweater or coat in Bogotá and aerating and cooling in Cali, Cartagena and other cities.There is the consistent risk of earthquakes.Most of Colombia from the Pacific coast to the focal good countries and past has encountered destroying seismic tremors which can happen amid at whatever time of the day or night. I have survived genuine early morning tremors that split dividers and tumbled roofs to evening shakes the rendered structures dreadful and brought about the apparently super-characteristic shine of quake lights to show up around the city of Cali.

There is the steady risk of volcanic eruptions.Several of Colombia's numerous volcanoes are in dynamic or semi-dynamic status. The most news-deserving of these being Galeras Volcano, situated next to the city of Pasto populated by more than 400,000 individuals, in the southern part of the nation. Notices and departure "dangers" have turned out to be common to the point that occupants scarcely give careful consideration until cinder and gas regurgitate forward from the darkened summit. Colombia's most noticeably bad disaster was the obliteration of Armero, a whole town of more than 23,000 occupants basically all executed in one night - covered under a volcanic emission brought on mudslide more than forty feet profound. Other Colombian volcanoes incorporate snow-topped Nevada Ruiz, likewise with late ejections, and Purace.