Chinique
Chinique | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Guatemala |
| Department |  El Quiché |
| Municipality | Chinique de las Flores |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal |
| Area | |
| • City | 16 sq mi (41 km2) |
| Highest elevation | 7,580 ft (2,310 m) |
| Lowest elevation | 3,924 ft (1,196 m) |
| Population (Census 2002) | |
| • City | 8,009 |
| • Urban | 2,290 |
| • Ethnicities | K'iche' Ladino |
| • Religions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya |
| Climate | Cwb |
| Website | http://www.inforpressca.com/chinique/ |
Chinique, from the Kʼicheʼ language «chinic´aj taka´aj»,[1] is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.[2] In 1892 Alfred Maudslay and his wife Anne reported that the place was a small group of houses made form adobe with thatched roofs.[3]
References[]
- ^ XI Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) Instituto Nacional de Estadística
- ^ Tetzagüic, Manuel de Jesús Salazar (2003). Culturas e interculturalidad de Guatemala. Universidad Rafael Landírvar. p. 6.
- ^ A Glimpse at Guatemala by Maudslay and Maudslay Published in 1899, page 75
| hideClimate data for Chinique | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 19.8 (67.6) |
21.0 (69.8) |
22.5 (72.5) |
23.3 (73.9) |
23.0 (73.4) |
21.6 (70.9) |
21.3 (70.3) |
22.0 (71.6) |
21.6 (70.9) |
20.8 (69.4) |
20.6 (69.1) |
20.2 (68.4) |
21.5 (70.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 14.0 (57.2) |
14.6 (58.3) |
16.0 (60.8) |
17.0 (62.6) |
17.6 (63.7) |
17.0 (62.6) |
16.5 (61.7) |
16.6 (61.9) |
16.6 (61.9) |
16.0 (60.8) |
15.0 (59.0) |
14.4 (57.9) |
15.9 (60.7) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 8.2 (46.8) |
8.3 (46.9) |
9.5 (49.1) |
10.8 (51.4) |
12.3 (54.1) |
12.5 (54.5) |
11.8 (53.2) |
11.2 (52.2) |
11.6 (52.9) |
11.2 (52.2) |
9.4 (48.9) |
8.6 (47.5) |
10.5 (50.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 6 (0.2) |
5 (0.2) |
12 (0.5) |
33 (1.3) |
90 (3.5) |
239 (9.4) |
180 (7.1) |
173 (6.8) |
193 (7.6) |
125 (4.9) |
41 (1.6) |
5 (0.2) |
1,102 (43.3) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[1] | |||||||||||||
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- ^ "Climate: Chinique". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
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