Tomil

{{Short description|Municipality in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia}}

Tomil or TamilOtto Van der Brug. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1982/0357/report.pdf "Water Resources of the Yap Islands".] USGS Open-File Report: 82-357. 1984. p. 1. ({{langx|yap|Tamil}}) is a municipality on the island of Yap, in the Federated States of Micronesia. It consists of twelve distinctive villages: Meerur, Teb, Aff, Bugol, Doomchuy, Deechmur, Dilag, Maa', Thol, Madl'ay, Gargey, and Daaboch. Tomil occupies the southern portion of Gagil-Tamil Island, except for Gargey village, which is located on the main island of Yap.

Tomil is located on the northeastern part of the Yap Islands and positioned between the municipalities of Fanif, Maap and Gagil. Tomil is known for having its own explicit volcanic or none volcanic soil studied once by scientists.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} It is the second largest municipality on Yap. Tomil is also known for having its own distinctive Yapese language mainly emphasizing the vowel 'e' pronunciation.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

The annual celebration of the Yap Day, usually held March 1, 2, and 3rd of every year, were celebrated in Tomil for consecutive years in Tumor. Several Yap proper leaders, such as former Governor Vincent Figir, former Attorney General and current Chief Justice Cyprian Manmaw, former Governor Robert Ruecho, Senator Joseph Giliko, and Senator and former speaker of the house, and current Governor Charles Chieng, have also originated from Tomil.

Climate

Tamil has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy rainfall year-round.

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|metric first = Yes

|Jan high F = 85.4

|Feb high F = 85.2

|Mar high F = 86.0

|Apr high F = 86.8

|May high F = 87.3

|Jun high F = 86.8

|Jul high F = 86.3

|Aug high F = 86.2

|Sep high F = 86.2

|Oct high F = 86.9

|Nov high F = 86.6

|Dec high F = 85.6

|year high F=

|Jan mean F = 80.4

|Feb mean F = 80.2

|Mar mean F = 80.8

|Apr mean F = 81.5

|May mean F = 81.7

|Jun mean F = 81.1

|Jul mean F = 80.7

|Aug mean F = 80.6

|Sep mean F = 80.5

|Oct mean F = 80.9

|Nov mean F = 81.0

|Dec mean F = 80.5

|year mean F =

|Jan low F = 75.5

|Feb low F = 75.3

|Mar low F = 75.7

|Apr low F = 76.2

|May low F = 76.2

|Jun low F = 75.5

|Jul low F = 75.1

|Aug low F = 75.0

|Sep low F = 74.9

|Oct low F = 75.0

|Nov low F = 75.5

|Dec low F = 75.5

|year low F=

|rain colour = green

|Jan rain inch = 6.390

|Feb rain inch = 5.730

|Mar rain inch = 5.730

|Apr rain inch = 5.740

|May rain inch = 9.560

|Jun rain inch = 11.500

|Jul rain inch = 15.140

|Aug rain inch = 14.320

|Sep rain inch = 13.740

|Oct rain inch = 11.230

|Nov rain inch = 9.030

|Dec rain inch = 10.600

|year rain inch=

|source 1= [https://web.archive.org/web/20201026135115/https://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?pi4831 WRCC] }}

References

External links

[http://pacificweb.org/DOCS/fsm/1987%20Yap%20Census/yap87.pdf Census 1987 with village population figures]

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Category:Municipalities of Yap