Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román Municipality
Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román | |
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Postal code | 99-700 |
Area code | (52) 437 |
Website | www |
Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román is a municipality located in the southwestern portion of the Mexican state of Zacatecas. The average elevation of the municipality is 1,723 meters (5,653 ft) above sea level and the municipality covers an area of 808.082 square kilometres (312.002 sq mi). The municipality lies in a valley bordered by the Sierra de Morones and lies on the banks of the Tlaltenango River, which runs north and is a tributary of the Bolaños River.
Tlaltenango is bordered on the north by the municipalities of Momax and General Joaquin Amaro, to east by the municipalities of Huanusco and Jalpa, to the south by the municipalities of municipality of Tepechitlán and to the west by Atolinga Municipality.
Population
According to the 2005 Census, the municipality of Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román had a population of 21,636 inhabitants. Of these, 14,520 lived in the municipal seat and the remainder lived in surrounding rural communities. In 2000, there were 7,223 economically active individuals in the municipality. The largest sector of employment was agriculture in husbandry, which employed 19.1% of the economically active population, followed by wholesale and retail, which employed 16.8% and manufacturing, which employed 11.9%.
Geography
Climate
Climate data for Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román (1951–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 33.0 (91.4) |
38.0 (100.4) |
43.0 (109.4) |
45.0 (113.0) |
43.0 (109.4) |
43.0 (109.4) |
41.0 (105.8) |
35.0 (95.0) |
38.0 (100.4) |
40.0 (104.0) |
40.0 (104.0) |
31.0 (87.8) |
45.0 (113.0) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 23.9 (75.0) |
25.5 (77.9) |
27.8 (82.0) |
30.7 (87.3) |
32.2 (90.0) |
30.8 (87.4) |
27.9 (82.2) |
27.7 (81.9) |
27.7 (81.9) |
27.4 (81.3) |
26.6 (79.9) |
24.6 (76.3) |
27.7 (81.9) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 13.3 (55.9) |
14.4 (57.9) |
16.6 (61.9) |
19.3 (66.7) |
21.7 (71.1) |
22.5 (72.5) |
20.9 (69.6) |
20.7 (69.3) |
20.4 (68.7) |
18.5 (65.3) |
15.8 (60.4) |
14.0 (57.2) |
18.2 (64.8) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 2.7 (36.9) |
3.4 (38.1) |
5.1 (41.2) |
8.0 (46.4) |
11.1 (52.0) |
14.2 (57.6) |
13.9 (57.0) |
13.6 (56.5) |
12.9 (55.2) |
9.5 (49.1) |
4.9 (40.8) |
3.4 (38.1) |
8.6 (47.5) |
Record low °C (°F) | −8.5 (16.7) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
3.0 (37.4) |
5.0 (41.0) |
5.0 (41.0) |
4.0 (39.2) |
2.0 (35.6) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
−6.5 (20.3) |
−8.5 (16.7) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 19.9 (0.78) |
10.2 (0.40) |
5.0 (0.20) |
8.5 (0.33) |
18.3 (0.72) |
130.5 (5.14) |
198.2 (7.80) |
168.8 (6.65) |
115.0 (4.53) |
40.8 (1.61) |
10.7 (0.42) |
15.0 (0.59) |
740.9 (29.17) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.9 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 11.7 | 17.7 | 16.5 | 12.2 | 5.6 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 76.9 |
Source: Servicio Meteorologico Nacional[1][2] |
History
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Tlaltenanpan.jpg/300px-Tlaltenanpan.jpg)
In 1530, the Valley of Tlaltenango was inhabited by the indigenous Caxcans who farmed the land on the river banks and certainly enjoyed the abundance of flora and fauna of the mountain ranges that surrounded the valley. The meaning of the word Tlaltenango in the Caxcan language (land surrounded by walls) alludes to the mountainous landscape of the valley.
Between these walls, the Sierra del Mixtón to the east and the Sierra de Tepeque to the west, transited
The memories of this first encounter with the
In 1541, the Caxcans took up arms against the Spanish once again, with their
The war only came to an end when the Viceroy
Needless to say, at the end of the 16th century there were very few Spaniards that lived in the vicinity of Tlaltenango. In the decade of 1540, probably after the Mixtón War, the towns of the valley were entrusted as encomiendas to a number of Spaniards. The town of Tlaltenango was entrusted to Toribio de Bolaños, Tepechitlán to Pedro de Bobadilla, a soldier of Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán, and El Teúl was an encomineda of Juan Delgado. It is unlikely that these individuals were able to exercise their rights over the indigenous populations during the 16th century, given that the successive rebellions would have made it difficult. However, with the end of war, Spaniards began arriving and settling among the newly pacified indigenous inhabitants of the region.
In 1550, the town of Tlaltenango had 132 houses, in which lived 626 persons. By 1561, the
that they raised.By 1616, the number of Spaniards in the Valley was high enough for the indigenous inhabitants to complain about the damages caused to their farms by the steer and horses of the Spaniards. Racial mixing between the Spanish and
The local indigenous population was the main supply of labor for the salt mines in Santa Maria y El Peñol Blanco in the early 17th century. The town and its surrounding wooded mountains were also key suppliers of wood fiber used for construction of the frontier towns of
On July 18, 2008, there was a massive flash flood, killing 3, and affecting 15,000 of the town's people.
References
- ^ "Estado de Zacatecas-Estacion: Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román". Normales Climatologicas 1951–2010 (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorologico Nacional. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
- ^ "Extreme Temperatures and Precipitation for Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román 1961–2010" (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
Sources
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Zacatecas, State of Zacatecas [1]
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática [2]
- Carlos Casas, Bernardo. Tlaltenango: una ciudad amurallada, Guadalajara, Jal.: Impre-Jal (1986)
- Gerhard, Peter. The North Frontier of New Spain, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1982)
- Salcedo y Herrera, Francisco Manuel. Descripción del partido y jurisdicción de Tlaltenango, hecha en 1650, México, D.F.: José Porrua e Hijos (1958)
External links
- En el Valle de Tlaltenango (Somos Primos article in Spanish)
- www.mytlaltenango.com (Private party site dedicated to Tlaltenango (in Spanish))
- Red Social De Tlaltenango (Tlaltenango Social Network)