San Miguel, Buenos Aires
San Miguel | ||
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CPA Base B 1663 | ||
| Area code | +54 11 | |
San Miguel is a city in the northwest region of
City of Buenos Aires. San Miguel is the county seat of San Miguel Partido
, and has been a part of Greater Buenos Aires since the early 2000s. The number of inhabitants was 157,532 according to the 2001 census.
Part of a vast
steel cable facility.[1]
Cable television provider TeleRed broadcasts from San Miguel, covering audiences in most of the Greater Buenos Aires. Its programming includes a local Catholic channel, Señal Santa Marìa, which offers family-friendly content plus religious programmes, mostly from EWTN.[2]
San Miguel is home to a number of educational institutions, including the National University of General Sarmiento and the parochial Colegio Máximo de San José, from which Jorge Bergoglio (the future Pope Francis) obtained a degree in philosophy.[3]
San Miguel has numerous
Urquiza
commuter railroad lines, which provide easy access to Buenos Aires.
Climate
| Climate data for San Miguel, Buenos Aires (1991–2020, extremes 1961–2016) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 40.5 (104.9) |
37.6 (99.7) |
37.1 (98.8) |
33.6 (92.5) |
30.0 (86.0) |
27.4 (81.3) |
30.7 (87.3) |
34.0 (93.2) |
35.1 (95.2) |
34.9 (94.8) |
37.2 (99.0) |
39.6 (103.3) |
40.5 (104.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 30.1 (86.2) |
28.6 (83.5) |
26.9 (80.4) |
22.9 (73.2) |
19.1 (66.4) |
16.1 (61.0) |
15.4 (59.7) |
17.9 (64.2) |
19.6 (67.3) |
22.6 (72.7) |
25.9 (78.6) |
28.9 (84.0) |
22.8 (73.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 24.1 (75.4) |
22.9 (73.2) |
21.0 (69.8) |
17.1 (62.8) |
13.6 (56.5) |
10.9 (51.6) |
10.2 (50.4) |
12.2 (54.0) |
14.1 (57.4) |
17.2 (63.0) |
20.3 (68.5) |
22.9 (73.2) |
17.2 (63.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 18.7 (65.7) |
17.9 (64.2) |
16.0 (60.8) |
12.3 (54.1) |
9.4 (48.9) |
6.7 (44.1) |
5.9 (42.6) |
7.2 (45.0) |
9.2 (48.6) |
12.2 (54.0) |
14.7 (58.5) |
17.2 (63.0) |
12.3 (54.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 6.9 (44.4) |
5.9 (42.6) |
0.9 (33.6) |
0.6 (33.1) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
−7.9 (17.8) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
1.8 (35.2) |
3.5 (38.3) |
−7.9 (17.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 116.2 (4.57) |
130.7 (5.15) |
95.4 (3.76) |
114.3 (4.50) |
69.5 (2.74) |
49.8 (1.96) |
65.5 (2.58) |
64.6 (2.54) |
65.0 (2.56) |
118.6 (4.67) |
120.3 (4.74) |
100.9 (3.97) |
1,110.8 (43.74) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 9.6 | 6.9 | 6.5 | 6.7 | 6.4 | 7.0 | 9.3 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 93.5 |
| Average snowy days | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%)
|
68.2 | 74.0 | 75.8 | 79.6 | 82.5 | 81.9 | 80.3 | 75.8 | 73.4 | 72.4 | 69.2 | 67.0 | 75.0 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 291.4 | 234.8 | 232.5 | 180.0 | 167.4 | 141.0 | 155.0 | 176.7 | 186.0 | 223.2 | 261.0 | 288.3 | 2,537.3 |
| Mean daily sunshine hours | 9.4 | 8.3 | 7.5 | 6.0 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 7.2 | 8.7 | 9.3 | 6.9 |
| Source: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (September precipitation days 1961–1990)[4][5][6][7] | |||||||||||||
Sport
The city is home to Club Atlético San Miguel football club.
References
- ^ "Historia de San Miguel". Veamoslo.
- ^ "Señal Santa Marìa". Buscador TeleRed (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-07-07.
- ^ "Pope Francis: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio named new Pope". Baltimore News Journal. 13 March 2013. Archived from the original on 16 March 2013.
- ^ "Estadísticas Climatológicas Normales – período 1991–2020" (PDF) (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. 2023. Archived from the original on 8 July 2023. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
- ^ "Estadísticas Climatológicas Normales - período 1981-2010" (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ "Clima en la Argentina: Guia Climática por localidades". Caracterización: Estadísticas de largo plazo (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ "Valores Medios de Temperature y Precipitación-Capital Federal: Buenos Aires" (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to San Miguel, Buenos Aires.
- Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina. (in Spanish)
- (in Spanish) Sitio de interacción vecinal del Partido de San Miguel Guía, Farmacias, Foros, etc[permanent dead link]
- (in Spanish) Portal Comercial del Partido de San Miguel History, Photos, etc
- (in Spanish) El portal de San Miguel
- (in Spanish) Portal de San Miguel[permanent dead link]
- (in Spanish) Veamoslo: Portal de San Miguel, Muñiz, y Bella Vista
- (in Spanish) Universidad Nacional De General Sarmiento
- (in Spanish) Universidad Nacional De Lujan, San Miguel regional centre
- (in Spanish) Universidad Del Salvador
- (in Spanish) Centro Loyola: Facultades De Filosofía Y Teología De San Miguel
- (in Spanish) San Miguel News
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