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You won't find anywhere else in the world with more than 13 Köppen climates in less than 480.000km2 just as in Spain... the official size of Spain also includes the islands and all of the climates can be found on mainland Spain so you have to subtract the size of the islands... that's about 480.000km2 or so.
But I will. The Cuyo region in Argentina (integrated by Mendoza, San Luis and San Juan provinces), occupying an area of only 315.000 sq km, has at least 13 Köppen climates:
BSh (San Juan Metro Area)
BSk (San Juan Airport)
BWh (Las Trancas, San Luis)
BWk (Uspallata, Mendoza)
Cfb (La Consulta, in Valle de Uco, Mendoza)
Cfc (no station, surely in higher areas west of Valle de Uco)
Csb (Bardas Blancas, Mendoza)
Csc (No station, just go to higher, sloppy areas close to Bardas Blancas)
Cwa (Villa Reynolds, San Luis)
Cwb (La Carolina, San Luis)
Dsc (Los Patos Upper Valley, San Juan)
ET (Cristo Redentor, Mendoza)
EF (No station, Aconcagua peak is an obvious option)
If we set the C/D threshold in 0ºC some places like Puente del Inca, Mendoza, become Dsb, and maybe Dfc near Valle de Uco. If we extend Cuyo into Western Córdoba, we’ll have Cwc in Pampa de Achala, and perhaps Dwc with the threshold in 0ºC.
It doesn’t mean Cuyo is already almost as varied as the whole of Argentina. It definitely isn’t, but you can easily see here how flawed the count of Köppen climates is. You just need areas that happen to go across some thresholds –at least marginally- and all of a sudden you’ll get tons of them. The fact that Spain and Argentina have a similar amount of Köppen climates don’t tell us that they are equally diverse, but that counting Köppen climates is an awful method to compare climate diversity.
This XY graph correlates Average precipitation and Precipitation seasonality for many stations of Argentina, and provides further information via coloring to show ranges of average temperature, so there are three parameters involved. You can how all of the corners are complete and how most of them have wide thermal variety (being the Mediterranean based areas the least varied in this regard).
Try filling up this table with stations of Spain and we’ll get a better and more visual way to compare both countries in terms of climate diversity.
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Is there any city in Gran Chaco with an annual mean above 22°C ?
I didn't know that, in the Köppen map Argentina doesn't appear with tropical climates.
There aren't too many stations with climate data up there, but Embarcacion (one of the only ones I could find) has an annual mean of 22.6°C, ranging from 16.1°C in Jun&Jul to 27.3°C in Dec&Jan. And it is Cwa with a very dry winter and humid wet hot summer.
There are warmer places north and east, but few weather stations
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Originally Posted by Mhc1985
But I will. The Cuyo region in Argentina (integrated by Mendoza, San Luis and San Juan provinces), occupying an area of only 315.000 sq km, has at least 13 Köppen climates:
BSh (San Juan Metro Area)
BSk (San Juan Airport)
BWh (Las Trancas, San Luis)
BWk (Uspallata, Mendoza)
Cfb (La Consulta, in Valle de Uco, Mendoza)
Cfc (no station, surely in higher areas west of Valle de Uco)
Csb (Bardas Blancas, Mendoza)
Csc (No station, just go to higher, sloppy areas close to Bardas Blancas)
Cwa (Villa Reynolds, San Luis)
Cwb (La Carolina, San Luis)
Dsc (Los Patos Upper Valley, San Juan)
ET (Cristo Redentor, Mendoza)
EF (No station, Aconcagua peak is an obvious option)
If we set the C/D threshold in 0ºC some places like Puente del Inca, Mendoza, become Dsb, and maybe Dfc near Valle de Uco. If we extend Cuyo into Western Córdoba, we’ll have Cwc in Pampa de Achala, and perhaps Dwc with the threshold in 0ºC.
It doesn’t mean Cuyo is already almost as varied as the whole of Argentina. It definitely isn’t, but you can easily see here how flawed the count of Köppen climates is. You just need areas that happen to go across some thresholds –at least marginally- and all of a sudden you’ll get tons of them. The fact that Spain and Argentina have a similar amount of Köppen climates don’t tell us that they are equally diverse, but that counting Köppen climates is an awful method to compare climate diversity.
This XY graph correlates Average precipitation and Precipitation seasonality for many stations of Argentina, and provides further information via coloring to show ranges of average temperature, so there are three parameters involved. You can how all of the corners are complete and how most of them have wide thermal variety (being the Mediterranean based areas the least varied in this regard).
Try filling up this table with stations of Spain and we’ll get a better and more visual way to compare both countries in terms of climate diversity.
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