Raxruhá
Raxruhá | |
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Municipality | |
Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya | |
| Climate | Af |
Raxruhá is a town and
At the 2018 census, the municipality population was 36,832.History
Franja Transversal del Norte
Raxruhá
Location of Raxruhá in Franja Transversal del Norte
The Northern Transversal Strip was officially created during the government of General Carlos Arana Osorio in 1970, by Legislative Decree 60-70, for agricultural development.
Municipality formation
The municipality of Raxruhá was formed in 2008, from territory that once belonged to Chisec municipality.
Tourism
Raxruhá's main tourist attraction are the
Mayan culture.[6]
Candelaria caves
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Underground Candelaria river. -
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Climate
Raxruhá has tropical climate (Köppen: Af).
| Climate data for Raxruhá | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 26.3 (79.3) |
28.4 (83.1) |
29.8 (85.6) |
31.6 (88.9) |
31.6 (88.9) |
31.8 (89.2) |
30.0 (86.0) |
30.4 (86.7) |
30.4 (86.7) |
29.6 (85.3) |
27.8 (82.0) |
26.8 (80.2) |
29.5 (85.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 22.5 (72.5) |
23.5 (74.3) |
25.1 (77.2) |
26.5 (79.7) |
27.1 (80.8) |
27.4 (81.3) |
26.2 (79.2) |
26.4 (79.5) |
26.3 (79.3) |
25.7 (78.3) |
24.0 (75.2) |
22.5 (72.5) |
25.3 (77.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 18.8 (65.8) |
18.6 (65.5) |
20.5 (68.9) |
21.4 (70.5) |
22.6 (72.7) |
23.0 (73.4) |
22.5 (72.5) |
22.4 (72.3) |
22.2 (72.0) |
21.8 (71.2) |
20.3 (68.5) |
18.3 (64.9) |
21.0 (69.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 138 (5.4) |
74 (2.9) |
79 (3.1) |
88 (3.5) |
189 (7.4) |
318 (12.5) |
335 (13.2) |
258 (10.2) |
301 (11.9) |
278 (10.9) |
203 (8.0) |
159 (6.3) |
2,420 (95.3) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[7] | |||||||||||||
Geographic location
Rahruhá is immersed in between Chisec and Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, which both Alta Verapaz Department municipalities.
Places adjacent to Raxruhá | |
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Notable people
- Jakelin Caal,[9]7-year-old child who died in the custody of the United States Border Patrol in 2018
References
- ^ Citypopulation.de Population of departments and municipalities in Guatemala
- ^ "Raxruhá: solo esperan una firma". Prensa Libre.
- ^ "Decreto Número 10-2008". Diario de Centroamérica, 25 de marzo de 2008, No. 97 Tomo CCLXXXIM.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Franja Transversal del Norte". Wikiguate. Guatemala. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ^ Solano 2012, p. 15.
- ^ Ybarra, Megan (2008). Informe antropológico sobre el lugar sagrado, Cuevas "Xch'ool Tzuultaq'a" de Muqb'ilha' I y Candelaria Camposanto, Chisec, Alta Verapaz (in Spanish).
- ^ "Climate: Raxruhá". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ a b c SEGEPLAN. "Municipios de Alta Verapaz, Guatemala". Secretaría General de Planificación y Programación de la Presidencia de la República (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- ^ "In Home Village of Girl Who Died in U.S. Custody, Poverty Drives Migration". New York Times. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
Bibliography
- Solano, Luis (2012). "Contextualización histórica de la Franja Transversal del Norte (FTN)" (PDF). Centro de Estudios y Documentación de la Frontera Occidental de Guatemala, CEDFOG (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
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