Bolonchén, Campeche
Bolonchén | ||
|---|---|---|
Municipality Hopelchén | | |
| Elevation | 159 m (522 ft) | |
| Population (2010[1]) | ||
| • City | 3,975 | |
| • Urban | 3,975 | |
Bolonchén or Bolonchén de Rejón (Bolon Che'e'en in
Campeche, in Hopelchén Municipality. As of 2010[update] the town had a population of 3,975 people.[2] A short distance to the south of Bolonchén are located the caves
of Xtacunbilxunan.
Etymology
The name "Bolonchén" means "Nine Wells" in the
Maya language, and "de Rejón" commemorates Manuel Crescencio Rejón, a lawyer who helped draft the 1917 Constitution
and who was born here. Previously, the Pueblo was named Bolonchenticul. It was renamed in September 1955 to Balonchén de Rejón . It is also the birthplace of Olegario Molina y Solis, the Governor of Yucatán and Minister de Fomento in the Porfirio Díaz era (1877–1911). In 1833, it was the only pueblo to escape the cholera epidemic. This was due to the efforts of Julian Molina y Bastante (Olegario's grandfather) and the brothers Martinez.
Ruins
The large Bolonchén ruins site of ancient
facades
of the ancient structures were removed in the 18th through mid−20th centuries for reuse in new construction work. Nonetheless, a few monuments with sculpture and hieroglyphic texts are still visible.
Both the ruins and cave were visited and described briefly by John Lloyd Stephens at the start of the 1840s, but no detailed scholarly examination of the ruins was made until Eric von Euw in 1973 (in part because Stephens and other early visitors failed to note that there were surviving inscriptions).
Climate
| Climate data for Bolonchén de Rejón | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.3 (84.7) |
31.3 (88.3) |
33.6 (92.5) |
35.6 (96.1) |
36 (97) |
34.5 (94.1) |
33.8 (92.8) |
34.1 (93.4) |
33.3 (91.9) |
31.8 (89.2) |
30.4 (86.7) |
29.2 (84.6) |
33 (91) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 16.6 (61.9) |
17.5 (63.5) |
19.2 (66.6) |
20.9 (69.6) |
22.0 (71.6) |
22.4 (72.3) |
21.6 (70.9) |
21.7 (71.1) |
21.8 (71.2) |
20.6 (69.1) |
18.7 (65.7) |
17.1 (62.8) |
20 (68) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 30 (1.2) |
23 (0.9) |
20 (0.8) |
30 (1.2) |
76 (3) |
160 (6.2) |
140 (5.5) |
160 (6.4) |
200 (7.7) |
110 (4.2) |
43 (1.7) |
33 (1.3) |
1,000 (40) |
| Source: Weatherbase[3] | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ 2010 census tables: INEGI Archived May 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Archived from the originalon 30 September 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Bolonchén de Rejón, Campeche". Weatherbase. 2011. Retrieved on November 24, 2011.
