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Do you think London is the rainiest place in the world? You are mistaken: the Indian village of Mavsilam, which is located on northeast Indian state Meghalaya exceeds any other place on our huge planet by the number of dropping out here precipitation.
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30 years ago, this village even fell into the Guinness Book of Records. IN that many remembered 1985 in a rainy village fell 26,000 millimeters of rainfall – a record amount recorded ever by meteorologists.
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About 12,000 millimeters of rain falls annually in Mavsilam. To understand how much water is constantly falling to this settlement, it is worth knowing that approximately 1,000 millimeters of precipitation falls annually in the whole world. You are not impressive is the fact that this poor Indian village precipitation is twelve times greater? Straight fantastic Macondo town from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “One Hundred Years loneliness “…
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Amos Chapple is a photographer who spent several years among Indians traveling through this amazing country and photographing it Exotic landscapes, animals and local people. Rainy village hit the photographer and gave him a whole series of wonderful images depicting the difficult life of people in Mavsilam.
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