garua

t. lix., p. 449, the application (alluded to in the text) of the magnetic inclination to the determination of latitude along a coast running north and south, and which, like that of Chili and Peru, is for a part of the year enveloped in mist ( 'garua').

COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

The dry season, caused by the Humboldt current, is characterized by cool temperatures (17°C-22°C), a fairly persistent fog (garua) that envelopes the highlands of the larger islands in mist and drizzle, together with southeasterly winds.

Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

This is a very damp zone maintained in the dry season by thick garua fogs which accumulate through most of the night and last well into each day.

Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

With at least a day to spare you can also explore the Chongón-Colonche mountains, a little further inland, where dry forest morphs into cloud forest, with help from the garua, or sea mist.

Isla de la Plata - Ecuador's other Galapagos Sarah Gilbert 2010

The garua, the fog and mist, lifts after the hostages are in captivity for a number of weeks.

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett: Questions 2001

Though the _garua_ sometimes falls in large drops, still there is this distinction between it and rain, that it descends not from clouds at a great height, but is formed in the lower atmospheric regions, by the union of small bubbles of mist.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

"A thick mist obscures the firmament in this region for many months, during the period called _tiempo de la garua_.

Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857