Tekax
Tekax | |
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 Flag  Coat of arms | |
| Nickname: La Sultana de la Sierra | |
 Location of Tekax in Yucatan | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Yucatán |
| Municipality | Tecax Municipality |
| Seat | Tecax |
| Government | |
| • Municipal president | Fernando Romero Ávila[1] (PRI) |
| Elevation | 20 m (70 ft) |
| Population (2010)[2] | |
| • Total | 25 751 |
| Demonym | Tecaxican |
| Postal Code | 97970[3] |
| Prefix | 997[4] |
| Website | tecax |
Tekax, sometimes spelled Tecax (in full, Tekax de Álvaro Obregón), is a small city in the Mexican state of Yucatán, located at 20°12′07″N 89°17′17″W / 20.20194°N 89.28806°W in the southernmost part of the state. Tekax (pronounced [teˈkɑʃ]) means "Place of the Forests" in the Yucatec Maya language. Tekax was briefly declared the capital of Yucatán in 1845. Tekax is also the name of the surrounding municipality of which the city of Tekax serves as municipal seat of government.
In the census of 2005 Tekax had a population of 23,524. The municipality of Tekax reported a population of 37,454. It has an area of 3,819.61 km² (1,474.76 sq mi) and is the second-largest municipality in geographical area in the state, after Tizimín. The majority of the population in the municipality have Mayan ancestry.
Climate
| Climate data for Tekax | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.8 (85.6) |
31.2 (88.2) |
33.7 (92.7) |
35.4 (95.7) |
36.0 (96.8) |
35 (95) |
34.4 (93.9) |
34.6 (94.3) |
34.0 (93.2) |
32.7 (90.9) |
31.3 (88.3) |
29.8 (85.6) |
33.2 (91.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 15.9 (60.6) |
16.3 (61.3) |
18.2 (64.8) |
19.9 (67.8) |
21.3 (70.3) |
21.6 (70.9) |
21.0 (69.8) |
21 (70) |
21.3 (70.3) |
20.2 (68.4) |
18.2 (64.8) |
16.3 (61.3) |
19.3 (66.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 28 (1.1) |
28 (1.1) |
41 (1.6) |
36 (1.4) |
100 (4) |
160 (6.2) |
140 (5.5) |
140 (5.5) |
180 (7.2) |
140 (5.7) |
48 (1.9) |
48 (1.9) |
1,089 (43.1) |
| Source: Weatherbase [5] | |||||||||||||
References
- Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
- Yucatán Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
- ^ IPEPAC. "Directorio de alcaldes electos" (PDF). Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (2010). "Principales resultados por localidad 2010 (ITER)".
- ^ Servicio Postal Mexicano. "Consulta Códigos Postales". Retrieved August 2, 2011.
- ^ Telmex. "Claves LADA". Retrieved August 2, 2011.
- ^ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Tekax, Yucatán". Weatherbase. 2011. Retrieved on November 24, 2011.
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