Zumpango del Río
Zumpango del Río is the seat of the municipality of Eduardo Neri, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
The Spanish discovered silver lodes here in 1531, and started commercial silver mining in the area. Francisco de Hoyos and Juan Juan Jaramillo made the discovery when returning from a military expedition to Guerrero. Using Indian slave labor until the ban from doing so was enforced in 1550, the mines produced 1000 pounds of silver by 1539. Prominent mine owners included Juan de Burgos and Hernán Cortés. Most of the mines were abandoned by 1582 however.[1]
Geography
The city is located in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains, at an altitude of 1,092 meters (3,583 feet).
It is on Mexican Federal Highway 95 (Mexico City-Acapulco Highway), about 8 miles (13 km) northeast of the Guerrero state capital city of Chilpancingo[2]
Climate
Climate data for Zumpango del Río (1951–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 34.0 (93.2) | 37.0 (98.6) | 40.0 (104.0) | 42.0 (107.6) | 44.0 (111.2) | 42.0 (107.6) | 41.0 (105.8) | 41.0 (105.8) | 36.0 (96.8) | 36.0 (96.8) | 39.0 (102.2) | 35.0 (95.0) | 44.0 (111.2) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.1 (84.4) | 30.9 (87.6) | 33.5 (92.3) | 35.2 (95.4) | 34.9 (94.8) | 32.7 (90.9) | 31.6 (88.9) | 31.3 (88.3) | 30.2 (86.4) | 30.3 (86.5) | 29.7 (85.5) | 28.7 (83.7) | 31.5 (88.7) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 21.6 (70.9) | 23.1 (73.6) | 25.6 (78.1) | 27.3 (81.1) | 27.5 (81.5) | 26.1 (79.0) | 25.2 (77.4) | 25.0 (77.0) | 24.3 (75.7) | 24.0 (75.2) | 22.5 (72.5) | 21.3 (70.3) | 24.5 (76.1) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 14.2 (57.6) | 15.3 (59.5) | 17.7 (63.9) | 19.3 (66.7) | 20.0 (68.0) | 19.4 (66.9) | 18.7 (65.7) | 18.7 (65.7) | 18.5 (65.3) | 17.7 (63.9) | 15.3 (59.5) | 13.9 (57.0) | 17.4 (63.3) |
Record low °C (°F) | 1.0 (33.8) | 8.0 (46.4) | 11.0 (51.8) | 13.0 (55.4) | 14.0 (57.2) | 10.0 (50.0) | 11.0 (51.8) | 10.0 (50.0) | 14.0 (57.2) | 12.0 (53.6) | 7.0 (44.6) | 2.0 (35.6) | 1.0 (33.8) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 11.6 (0.46) | 5.7 (0.22) | 3.7 (0.15) | 7.4 (0.29) | 37.4 (1.47) | 126.7 (4.99) | 143.3 (5.64) | 138.4 (5.45) | 137.3 (5.41) | 54.9 (2.16) | 25.2 (0.99) | 14.8 (0.58) | 706.4 (27.81) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 3.9 | 12.5 | 15.5 | 15.3 | 15.6 | 6.2 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 75.8 |
Source: Servicio Meteorologico Nacional[3][4] |
See also
- Populated places in Guerrero
References
- ^ Bakewell, Peter John, ed. (1997). Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas. Variorum. pp. 57, 60–61. ISBN 978-0-86078-513-2.
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on December 23, 2008
- ^ "Estado de Guerrero-Estacion: Zumpango del Río". Normales Climatologicas 1951–2010 (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorologico Nacional. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ^ "Extreme Temperatures and Precipitation for Zumpango del Río 1961–2010" (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
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