Apatzingán (in full, Apatzingán de la Constitución) is a city and

municipal seat A municipal seat or ''cabecera municipal'' is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a municipality or civil parish with other villes or towns subordinated. The term is used in Brazil, Colombia,municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

of Apatzingán in the west-central region of the Mexican state of Michoacán.

Geography

The Municipality of Apatzingán is located in the

Tierra Caliente ''Tierra caliente'' is an informal term used in Latin America to refer to places with a distinctly tropical climate. These are usually regions from sea level from 0–3,000 feet.Zech, W. and Hintermaier-Erhard, G. (2002); Böden der Welt – Ein Bi ...

Valley. It has an area of 1,656.67 km² (639.64 sq mi), and reported a population of 99,010 (2010). The city of Apatzingán is the sixth-largest in Michoacán (behind

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, Zamora, Lázaro Cárdenas, and Zitacuaro), with a 2015 census population of 128,250 persons. The major Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range and the municipality of

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are to the west. Apatzigán in Tierra Caliente

History

Mexico's

Constitution of Apatzingán The Constitution of Apatzingán, formally ''Decreto Constitucional para la Libertad de la América Mexicana'' ("Constitutional Decree for the Liberty of Mexican America"), was promulgated on October 22, 1814 by the Congress of Anahuac gathered in ...

was signed in the city in 1814, during the

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in the

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against the

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. Six federal police officers were charged with murder on August 21,

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for their supposed involvement in a police operation that left nine dead on January 6, 2015 in Apatzingán. At least nine people died and several were injured when police fired against members and sympathizers of self-defense groups who had taken over the municipal palace.

Climate

Despite having an annual precipitation of , Apatzingán has a

semi-arid climate A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of sem ...

(

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

''BSh'') due to its hot temperatures and high evaporation rates.

References

Sources

Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005

Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI by its name in es, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática) is an autonomous agency of the Mexican Government dedicated to coordinate the National System of Stat ...

(INEGI)
Michoacán
Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

Photograph from Apatzingan's main church

External links