San Pedro Carchá
San Pedro Carchá, usually referred to as Carchá, is a town and a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. The municipality covers an area of 1,310 km2 (510 sq mi) and is situated at 1,282 m above sea level.[2]
At the 2018 census, the population of the municipality was 235,275 and that of the town of Carchá was 16,353.[3][4]
Sports
Deportivo Carchá football club play their home games in the Estadio Juan Ramon Ponce Guay. They have played in Guatemala's top division from 1998 to 2001.[citation needed]
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.[5] The decree literally said: "It is of public interest and national emergency, the establishment of Agrarian Development Zones in the area included within the municipalities: San Ana Huista, San Antonio Huista, Nentón, Jacaltenango, San Mateo Ixtatán, and Santa Cruz Barillas in Huehuetenango; Chajul and San Miguel Uspantán in Quiché; Cobán, Chisec, San Pedro Carchá, Lanquín, Senahú, Cahabón and Chahal, in Alta Verapaz and the entire department of Izabal."[6]
Climate
San Pedro Carchá has a warm and temperate climate (Köppen: Cfb).
Climate data for San Pedro Carchá | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 16.5 (61.7) | 17.4 (63.3) | 18.7 (65.7) | 19.7 (67.5) | 20.4 (68.7) | 20.4 (68.7) | 20.0 (68.0) | 20.0 (68.0) | 20.0 (68.0) | 19.0 (66.2) | 18.0 (64.4) | 16.9 (62.4) | 18.9 (66.1) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 128 (5.0) | 99 (3.9) | 111 (4.4) | 105 (4.1) | 183 (7.2) | 309 (12.2) | 266 (10.5) | 238 (9.4) | 306 (12.0) | 318 (12.5) | 235 (9.3) | 146 (5.7) | 2,444 (96.2) |
Source: Climate-Data.org[7] |
Geographic location
San Pedro Carchá is completely surrounded by Alta Verapaz department municipalities:
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Chisec | Fray Bartolomé de las Casas[8] | |
Cobán | San Pedro Carchá | Cahabón, Lanquín and Senahú[8] |
San Juan Chamelco[8] |
Gallery
- San Pedro Carcha Church
Notes and references
References
- ^ "Guatemala: Administrative Division (Departments and Municipalities) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
- ^ "San Pedro Carchá - Ubicación". inforpressca.com. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
- ^ "San Pedro Carchá". inforpressca.com. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
- ^ "Guatemala: Departments, Major Cities & Towns - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
- ^ "Franja Transversal del Norte". Wikiguate. Guatemala. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ^ Solano 2012, p. 15.
- ^ "Climate: San Pedro Carchá". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ a b c SEGEPLAN. "Municipios de Alta Verapaz, Guatemala". Secretaría General de Planificación y Programación de la Presidencia de la República. Guatemala. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
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). Retrieved 31 October 2014.
External links
- Media related to San Pedro Carchá at Wikimedia Commons
- Muni in Spanish
15°28′N 90°18′W / 15.467°N 90.300°W / 15.467; -90.300