garua
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The heavy fog along the coast of Peru on which plants depend for their moisture. It prevails from May to October up to a height of a hundred feet.
Examples
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I have described, in Lametherie's 'Journal de Physique' the application (alluded to in the text) of the magnetic inclination to the determination of latitude along a coast running north and south, and which, like that of Chili and Peru, is for a part of the year enveloped in mist ('garua').
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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This is a very damp zone maintained in the dry season by thick garua fogs which accumulate through most of the night and last well into each day.
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
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With at least a day to spare you can also explore the Chongón-Colonche mountains, a little further inland, where dry forest morphs into cloud forest, with help from the garua, or sea mist.
Sarah Gilbret, 'Isla de la Plata - Ecuador's other Galapagos,' The Guardian, November 26, 2010
Note
'Garua' translates from the Spanish as a 'very light drizzle.'
