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After a couple of hours drive we reached Cherrapunji. Cherrapunji (also spelled as Cherrapunjee), is a town in East Khasi Hills district in the state of Meghalaya. It is credited as being the wettest place on Earth. Cherrapunji’s yearly rainfall average stands at 11,430 mm (450 in). Cherrapunji receives both the Southwest and Northeast monsoon showers which give it a single monsoon season. Cherrapunji lies at an elevation of 1,370 m. (4,500 feet) in the Khasi Hills. It lies in the windward side of these hills to the Bay of Bengal branch of the SW monsoons which enters India through the Ganga delta. Due to orographic rainfall, the rain-bearing clouds are forced to deposit much of their moisture and rain on these hills from June to September. In the winter months it receives the northeast monsoon showers which travel down the Brahmaputra valley. It holds two Guinness world records:

1. For receiving the maximum amount of rainfall in a single year: 22,987 mm (904.9 inches) of rainfall between August 1860 and July 1861
2. For receiving the maximum amount of rainfall in a single month: 9299.96 mm (366.14 inches) in July 1861.

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