Nóvita is a municipality and town in the Chocó Department, Colombia.

It was a traditional center for gold mining,[2] Many of its residents are Afro-Colombians.

[3] In the 1850s, supplies, and possibly even people, were brought to the town by porters due to "the mountainous terrain, very high rainfall, and many rivers" of the surrounding region.

[4][5] Nóvita has an extremely wet tropical rainforest climate (Af) with over 9000 mm of rain annually.

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