Tajumulco
Tajumulco | |
|---|---|
  Tajumulco Location in Guatemala | |
| Coordinates: 15°05′N 91°53′W / 15.083°N 91.883°W | |
| Country |  Guatemala |
| Department |  San Marcos |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Nery Chilel (URNG) |
| Climate | Cwb |
Tajumulco is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala.
History
Colonial era
In 1690, Tejutla had a large area and included the modern municipalities of Comitancillo, Ixchiguán, Concepción Tutuapa, Sipacapa, Sibinal, Tajumulco, Tacaná and part of what is now San Miguel Ixtahuacán. According to the historical writings from Recordación Florida of Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán, Tejutla belonged to Quetzaltenango Department and it was a "prosperous land with rich weathers and comfortable forest with enough water".[1]
Tejutla was an important commercial and religious center; in August 1767, Joseph Domingo Hidalgo described Santiago Tejutla as "El Curato" -i.e., the focal center of commerce of all the towns that were around it− in the Gaceta de Guatemala, the official newspaper of the times. Then, in the last quarter of the 18th century, bishop Dr. Pedro Cortés y Larraz, who arrived from Cuilco in 1770 as part of the inspection he was doing of the Guatemalan dioceses, called Tejutla "Santiago en la Cima del Monte" (English: Santiago at the top of the hill" and reported that there were "sixty four families who lived very well" in the area.[2]
Independent era
The Central American United Provinces constitution from 11 October 1821, showed Tejutla under modern San Marcos jurisdiction for the very first time.
In 1870 Tejutla reached "Villa" category and, due to its development, its authorities requested to the
But power shifted when the conservatives led by Field Marshal
Climate
Tajumulco has temperate climate (Köppen:Cwb).
| Climate data for Tajumulco | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 20.5 (68.9) |
21.1 (70.0) |
22.6 (72.7) |
23.3 (73.9) |
23.1 (73.6) |
21.9 (71.4) |
21.9 (71.4) |
22.4 (72.3) |
21.8 (71.2) |
21.3 (70.3) |
21.1 (70.0) |
20.6 (69.1) |
21.8 (71.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 13.2 (55.8) |
13.6 (56.5) |
15.0 (59.0) |
16.3 (61.3) |
17.1 (62.8) |
16.7 (62.1) |
16.5 (61.7) |
16.5 (61.7) |
16.4 (61.5) |
15.9 (60.6) |
14.7 (58.5) |
13.8 (56.8) |
15.5 (59.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 5.9 (42.6) |
6.1 (43.0) |
7.5 (45.5) |
9.3 (48.7) |
11.1 (52.0) |
11.6 (52.9) |
11.1 (52.0) |
10.6 (51.1) |
11.1 (52.0) |
10.5 (50.9) |
8.3 (46.9) |
7.0 (44.6) |
9.2 (48.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 8 (0.3) |
9 (0.4) |
32 (1.3) |
78 (3.1) |
210 (8.3) |
346 (13.6) |
267 (10.5) |
279 (11.0) |
326 (12.8) |
222 (8.7) |
34 (1.3) |
14 (0.6) |
1,825 (71.9) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[6] | |||||||||||||
Localities
Geographic location
Tajumulco is surrounded by
Places adjacent to Tajumulco | |
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See also
Notes and references
- ^ Fuentes y Guzmán 1932.
- ^ Cortés y Larraz 1770.
- ^ Comisión Guatemalteca de Límites con México (1900). Memoria sobre la cuestión de límites entre Guatemala y México (in Spanish). Guatemala: Tipografía Nacional. p. 325.
- ^ "Nuestras fronteras". La Ilustración Guatemalteca (in Spanish). I (13). Guatemala: Síguere, Guirola y Cía. 1896.
- ^ Castellanos Cambranes, Julio (1992). "5. Tendencias del desarrollo agrario en el siglo XIX y surgimiento de la propiedad capitalista de la tierra en Guatemala" (PDF). 500 años de lucha por la tierra. Estudios sobre propiedad rual y reforma agraria en Guatemala (in Spanish). 1. Guatemala: FLACSO.
- ^ "Climate: Tajumulco". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ^ a b c SEGEPLAN. "Municipios del departamento de San Marcos". Secretaría General de Planificación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 July 2015.
Bibliography
- Cortés y Larraz, Pedro (1770). Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala (in Spanish). Guatemala: Diócesis de Guatemala.
- Fuentes y Guzmán, Francisco Antonio de (1932) [1690]. Recordación Florida. Discurso historial y demostración natural, material, militar y política del Reyno de Guatemala. Biblioteca Goathemala de la Sociedad de Geografía e Historia Volumen VI (in Spanish). Vol. I–III. Guatemala: Tipografía Nacional.
