Apatzingán
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City
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| Apatzingán de la Constitución | |
Seal | |
| Nicknames:
La Perla de Tierra Caliente, Cuna de la Constitución Mexicana
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| Coordinates: 19°05′19″N 102°21′03″W / 19.08861°N 102.35083°W / 19.08861; -102.35083 | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Michoacán |
| Municipality | Apatzingán |
| Founded | 1617 |
| Government | |
| • Municipal President | Jose torres (PRI) |
| Elevation | 325 m (1,066 ft) |
| Population
(2010)[1]
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| • Total | 99,010 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 453 |
| Website | Official Website |
Apatzingán (in full, Apatzingán de la Constitución) is a city and municipal seat of the municipality of Apatzingán in the west-central region of the Mexican stateofMichoacán.
Mexico's Constitution of Apatzingán was signed in the city in 1814, during the Mexican War of Independence in the Viceroyalty of New Spain against the Spanish Empire.
Six federal police officers were charged with murder on August 21, 2019 for their supposed involvement in a police operation that left nine dead on January 6, 2015 in Apatzingán. At least nine people died and several were injured when police fired against members and sympathizers of self-defense groups who had taken over the municipal palace.[2]
The Municipality of Apatzingán is located in the Tierra Caliente Valley. It has an area of 1,656.67 km2 (639.64 sq mi), and reported a population of 99,010 (2010).
The city of Apatzingán is the sixth-largest in Michoacán (behind Morelia, Uruapan, Zamora, Lázaro Cárdenas, and Zitacuaro), with a 2015 census population of 128,250 persons.
The major Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range and the municipality of Coalcomán de Vázquez Pallares are to the west.
Despite having an annual precipitation of 752 millimetres (29.6 in), Apatzingán has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSh) due to its hot temperatures and high evaporation rates.[3]
| Climate data for Apatzingán | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 38.0 (100.4) |
39.0 (102.2) |
42.0 (107.6) |
43.0 (109.4) |
46.5 (115.7) |
44.0 (111.2) |
43.0 (109.4) |
39.5 (103.1) |
39.0 (102.2) |
41.5 (106.7) |
43.0 (109.4) |
37.0 (98.6) |
46.5 (115.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 32.3 (90.1) |
33.8 (92.8) |
36.4 (97.5) |
39.0 (102.2) |
40.0 (104.0) |
37.8 (100.0) |
34.7 (94.5) |
34.1 (93.4) |
33.7 (92.7) |
34.1 (93.4) |
34.0 (93.2) |
32.9 (91.2) |
35.2 (95.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 24.7 (76.5) |
26.0 (78.8) |
28.4 (83.1) |
30.7 (87.3) |
32.7 (90.9) |
31.6 (88.9) |
29.2 (84.6) |
28.5 (83.3) |
28.2 (82.8) |
28.2 (82.8) |
27.3 (81.1) |
25.7 (78.3) |
28.4 (83.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 17.1 (62.8) |
18.1 (64.6) |
20.3 (68.5) |
22.4 (72.3) |
25.4 (77.7) |
25.5 (77.9) |
23.6 (74.5) |
22.9 (73.2) |
22.7 (72.9) |
22.2 (72.0) |
20.7 (69.3) |
18.5 (65.3) |
21.6 (70.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 8.5 (47.3) |
10.0 (50.0) |
13.0 (55.4) |
13.0 (55.4) |
17.5 (63.5) |
15.0 (59.0) |
17.0 (62.6) |
18.5 (65.3) |
19.0 (66.2) |
14.0 (57.2) |
11.0 (51.8) |
10.0 (50.0) |
8.5 (47.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 17.1 (0.67) |
1.1 (0.04) |
0.8 (0.03) |
0.6 (0.02) |
11.2 (0.44) |
129.5 (5.10) |
166.2 (6.54) |
175.2 (6.90) |
148.5 (5.85) |
81.9 (3.22) |
14.6 (0.57) |
5.2 (0.20) |
751.9 (29.60) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 11.4 | 14.6 | 14.3 | 12.3 | 5.6 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 64.1 |
| Source: Servicio Meteorologico Nacional[4] | |||||||||||||
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