Chihuahua (city)

Chihuahua
Coordinates: 28 ° 38 ′  N , 106 ° 4 ′  W Chihuahua​ Chihuahua on the map of Chihuahua
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Municipio	Chihuahua
City foundation	1709
Residents	809,232  (2010)
City insignia
Detailed data
height	1415  m
Post Code	31000-31485
prefix	+52 614
Time zone	UTC  Mountain Standard Time
City Presidency	María Eugenia Campos Galván ( PAN )
Website	www.municipiochihuahua.gob.mx
Chihuahua's main square

Chihuahua [ tʃiˈwawa ] is a city in northern Mexico with 809,232 inhabitants (2010) and capital of the state and municipality of the same name .

The name is Nahuatl and roughly means "dry and sandy place".

geography

The city is located in the middle of the desert in an oasis culture .

history

The city, which was founded in 1709 and is also the seat of an archbishopric , experienced a tremendous boom during the reign of the long-term Mexican president Porfirio Díaz and became an important commercial and financial center. During the Mexican Revolution , Chihuahua played an important role as the revolutionary center and base of operations for Pancho Villas División del Norte . Accordingly, there were repeated bitter battles for possession of the city between the Mexican federal troops and the Revolutionary Army of Villas, for example in 1913 and 1916.

Attractions

• Museo de Arte Sacro (German Museum of Religious Arts), calle Victoria / calle 4a.
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Casa Redonda (dt. Round House Museum of Contemporary Art), Avenida Colon / Escudero: Painting and sculpture museum in a former railway workshop.
• Quinta Gameros (German country house Gameros), Paseo Bolivar # 401: The house, commissioned by the wealthy Gameros family, served as the residence of Venustiano Carranza during the revolution and later as the study of Pancho Villa.
• Museo de la Revolución Mexicana / Casa de Villa (dt. Museum of the Mexican Revolution / House of Villa), Calle 10a / Mendez # 3010: the house commissioned by Pancho Villa was inhabited and by Luz Corral, one of his wives later left to the state with the condition that a museum dedicated to the revolution be set up there.
• Museo de la Lealtad Republicana / Casa Juárez (Eng.Museum of Republican Loyalty / House Juárez), Avenida Juárez # 321: During the time of the French occupation , the then Mexican President Benito Juárez , who had sought refuge in Chihuahua, lived from October 1864 to December 1866 in this house.
• Galería de Armas (German Arms Gallery) and Museo de Hidalgo (German Hidalgo Museum): both the gallery in which weapons from the time of the Revolution are exhibited and the museum built in honor of Miguel Hidalgo are in the building of the state government (Aldama # 901).
• Centro de Patrimonio Cultural Museo Casa Chihuahua (German Cultural Art Center Museum House Chihuahua), Calle Libertad (between Vicente Guerrero and Venustiano Carranza): the former seat of government of the state of Chihuahua has housed a cultural center since November 2007, which includes the Calabozo de Hidalgo (Eng. dungeon of Hidalgo), in which the Mexican folk hero spent the last three months of his life in captivity before he was executed in the morning hours of July 30, 1811.
• Museo Tarike, Calle 4a: Museum of the City History of Chihuahua.
• Museo Centro Semilla, Progreso # 1201: Natural Science and Technology Museum.
• Museo del Mamut (Mammoth Museum), Avenida Juárez / Calle 25: Natural History Museum ( official website of the Museo Mamut in Spanish).

Twin cities

Chihuahua lists the following six twin cities :

city	country	since
Albuquerque	New Mexico, United States	2008
El Paso	Texas, United States	1970
Lynnwood	Washington, United States
Midland	Texas, United States	2015
Nashville	Tennessee, United States
Pueblo	Colorado, United States

Personalities

Sons and daughters:

• Octaviano Larrazolo (1859–1930), American politician
• David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974), painter and printmaker
• Arturo Rosenblueth (1900–1970), physiologist
• Anthony Quinn (1915-2001), Mexican-American film actor
• Chucho Rodríguez (1918–1991), composer, arranger, pianist and orchestra conductor
• Juan Molinar Horcasitas (1955–2015), political scientist and politician
• Miguel Gallardo Valles (* 1981), tennis player
• Haley Paige (1981-2007), American porn actress of Mexican origin

People related to the city:

• Art Acord (1890–1931), American film actor

Climate table

Chihuahua
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     15th   17th 2     4th   20th 4th     4.2   23 7th     14th   26th 11     24   30th 15th     34   33 19th     108   31 19th     107   29 18th     105   28 16     32   25th 11     13   21st 5     17th   17th 2 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: WMO ; wetterkontor.de

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Chihuahua Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 16.5 19.6 23.1 26.3 29.8 32.7 30.9 29.4 27.5 25.0 20.6 17.2 O 24.9 Min. Temperature (° C) 1.7 3.7 7.4 10.9 14.6 18.7 18.9 17.6 15.7 10.9 5.3 2.3 O 10.7 Precipitation ( mm ) 15.3 4.0 4.2 13.5 23.5 34.3 108.2 107.0 104.9 32.1 12.8 16.9 Σ 476.7 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 6.0 7.5 7.9 8.9 9.1 9.2 8.2 7.6 7.7 7.8 6.9 5.6 O 7.7 Rainy days ( d ) 3.2 1.3 1.5 2.1 3.3 5.6 11.7 13.3 9.1 4.6 2.5 2.9 Σ 61.1 Humidity ( % ) 50 42 35 31 31 36 51 54 57 51 49 51 O 44.9 Source: WMO ; wetterkontor.de

Web links

• Official website of the Ayuntamiento Chihuahua (Spanish)
• Museos en el Estado de Chihuahua (Spanish; accessed June 23, 2014)
• Tony Burton (Mexconnect): Chihuahua City, Pancho Villa and Parral de Hidalgo (English; article from March 14, 2008)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La Ventana de Chihuahua al Mundo. - Ciudades Hermanas. Retrieved December 28, 2016 .