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Location of the Yoro department. The lluvia de peces (lit. ' rain of fish '), also known as aguacero de pescado (lit. ' downpour of fish '), [1] [2] is a phenomenon that has been occurring yearly for more than a century in Yoro, Honduras, in which fish are said to fall from the sky. [3] [4] [5] It occurs up to four times in a year.
The departmental capital is Yoro. The department covers a total surface area of 7,939 km 2 and, in 2005, had an estimated population of 503,886 people. It is famous for the Lluvia de Peces (rain of fishes), a tradition by which fish fall from the sky during very heavy rains.
The annual Lluvia de Peces in Yoro, Honduras; Chilaw, Sri Lanka, 6 May 2014 [33] Nandigama, Andhra Pradesh, India, 19 June 2015 [34] Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, 16 August 2015 [35] Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, 20 January 2016 [36] Pathapatnam, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, 19 May 2016 [37] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 September 2016 [38]
Yoro, with a population of 27,460 (2023 calculation), [2] is the capital city of the Yoro Department of Honduras and the municipal seat of Yoro Municipality. It is notable for a local event known as Lluvia de Peces, where it is claimed that strong storms make fish fall from [3] the sky.
La Lluvia de Peces de Yoro (Yoro's Fish Rain) The Yoro Fish Rain is an extraordinary meteorological phenomenon. As of 2024, there is no cemented scientific proof of why this phenomenon occurs. According to the inhabitants of Yoro, this phenomenon has been occurring in this area for more than a century.
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