San Pedro Carchá

San Pedro Carchá
Municipality

Municipal palace, San Pedro Carchá, 1980

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Nickname(s): Carchá
San Pedro Carchá

Location in Guatemala

Coordinates: 15°28′38″N 90°18′38″W / 15.47722°N 90.31056°W / 15.47722; -90.31056
Country Guatemala
Department Alta Verapaz
Municipality San Pedro Carchá
Government
 • Type Municipal
 • Mayor Víctor Hugo Cifuentes (UNE)
Area
 • Municipality 1,082 km2 (418 sq mi)
Elevation 1,282 m (4,206 ft)
Highest elevation 2,100 m (6,900 ft)
Lowest elevation 600 m (2,000 ft)
Population (Census 2002)[1]
 • Municipality 148,344
 • Urban 11,941
 • Ethnicities Q'eqchi', Poqomchi', Ladino
 • Religions Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya
Climate Cfb
Website municipal site

San Pedro Carchá, usually referred to as Carchá, is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. It is situated at 1282 m above sea level. It has an estimated population 245,000 people.[2] It covers a terrain of 1082 km².[3]

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 1998-2001.

Franja Transversal del Norte

San Pedro Carchá
Location of San Pedro Carchá in 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.[4] 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."[5]

Climate

San Pedro Carchá has a warm and temperate climate (Köppen: Cfb).

Climate data for San Pedro Carchá
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)		 20.0
(68)		 20.0
(68)		 19.0
(66.2)		 18.0
(64.4)		 16.9
(62.4)		 18.92
(66.05)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 128
(5.04)		 99
(3.9)		 111
(4.37)		 105
(4.13)		 183
(7.2)		 309
(12.17)		 266
(10.47)		 238
(9.37)		 306
(12.05)		 318
(12.52)		 235
(9.25)		 146
(5.75)		 2,444
(96.22)
Source: Climate-Data.org[6]

Geographic location

San Pedro Carchá is completely surrounded by Alta Verapaz department municipalities:

 Chisec Fray Bartolomé de las Casas[7]
Cobán Cahabón, Lanquín and Senahú[7]
   San Pedro Carchá  
San Juan Chamelco[7]

See also

Notes and references

References

  1. ↑ "XI Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002)". INE. 2002.
  2. ↑ "San Pedro Carchá". inforpressca.com. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
  3. ↑ "San Pedro Carchá - Ubicación". inforpressca.com. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
  4. ↑ "Franja Transversal del Norte". Wikiguate. Guatemala. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Solano 2012, p. 15.
  6. ↑ "Climate: San Pedro Carchá". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 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

Coordinates: 15°28′N 90°18′W / 15.467°N 90.300°W / 15.467; -90.300

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