Durham County is the core of the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had a population of 1,749,525 in 2010.
Interesting Tropical Rainforest Biome Facts: Rainforests are extremely important because the water they produce is evaporated and then used as rain in other areas. The average temperature of the tropical rainforest remains between 70 and 85Â° F. The tropical rainforest is very rainy as its name implies.The rainfall can reach up to 400 inches in one year. Orchids are a type of epiphyte plant that grows in the tropical rainforest.nteresting Tropical Rainforest Biome Facts: Rainforests are extremely important because the water they produce is evaporated and then used as rain in other areas. The average temperature of the tropical rainforest remains between 70 and 85Â° F. The tropical rainforest is very rainy as its name implies.
Location and Climate. The land between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn is home to the worldâs tropical rainforests. With its average temperature between 20 to 25 degrees Centigrade and 2000 to 10,000 millimeters of rainfall per year (Rainforest Biome, pars. 1,2) it supplies the greatest amount of plant growth of all the biomes of Earth (Tropical Rainforest Overview, par. 1). Tropical rain forests are located closer to the equator then temperate rainforests (Rainforest Biome, par. 5). The Amazon hosts the worldâs largest tropical rainforest. Twenty percent of plants and birds on Earth, and ten percent of mammal species can be discovered in the Amazon.