On the existence of LLoro (the rainiest locality on Earth): ocean-atmosphere-land interaction enhanced by a low level jet

.One of the rainiest regions of the world is located on the low-lands of Colombia along the Pacific Ocean, where average precipitation ranges from 8.000 mm to 13.000 mm per year. There lies Lloro ("it cried", 5 31 N, 76 33 W, 90 m.a.s.l.) a location that received 13.473 mm of average annual precipitation during the period 1952-1954, and 12.717 mm for the period 1952-58. The region also exhibits records in Andagoya (13.300 mm/year for the period 1932-60), and in a single year such as 1974, the nearby town of Vigia de Cuvarado experienced 26.871 mm of total rainfall. With mean air temperatures ranging between 26-28 C, and mean relative humidity around 90% throughout the year, this region is mostly covered by tropical rainforest. This singular hydrological, climatological and ecological feature of the planet is explained by ocean-land-atmosphere interaction over tropical western South America, which is enhanced by the dynamics of a low-level westerly jet over the easternmost fringe of the tropical Pacific Ocean. We show the annual and interannual variability of such interaction that explains multiple features of Colombia's hydro-climatology and its anomalies during both phases of ENSO