Concepción Tutuapa (Spanish pronunciation: [konseβˈsjon tuˈtwapa]) is a town and municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. It had a population of 49,363 according to the census of 2002 and of the 2018 census there is a total population of 68,148.
Concepción Tutuapa | |
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Municipality | |
  Concepción Tutuapa Location in San Marcos Department, Guatemala  Concepción Tutuapa Concepción Tutuapa (Guatemala) | |
| Coordinates: 15°17′N 91°47′W / 15.283°N 91.783°W | |
| Country |  Guatemala |
| Department |  San Marcos |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2016-2020) | Petronilo Chun Pérez[1] (LIDER) |
| Area | |
| • Municipality | 118 sq mi (305 km2) |
| Population (2018 census)[2] | |
| • Municipality | 68,148 |
| • Density | 580/sq mi (220/km2) |
| • Urban | 6,006 |
| Climate | Cwb |
History
editSpanish colony
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In 1691, Tejutla had a large area and included the modern municipalities of Comitancillo, Ixchiguán, Concepción Tutuapa, Sipacapa, Sibinal, Tajumulco, Tacaná and part of what is now San Miguel Ixtahuacán. According to the historical writings from Recordación Florida of Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán, Tejutla belonged to Quetzaltenango Department and it was a "prosperous land with rich weathers and comfortable forest with enough water".[3]
Tejutla was an important commercial and religious center; in August 1768, Joseph Domingo Hidalgo described Santiago Tejutla as "El Curato" -i.e., the focal center of commerce of all the towns that were around it− in the Gaceta de Guatemala, the official newspaper of the times. Then, in the last quarter of the 18th century, bishop Dr. Pedro Cortés y Larraz, who arrived from Cuilco in 1771 as part of the inspection he was doing of the Guatemalan dioceses, called Tejutla "Santiago en la Cima del Monte" (English: Santiago at the top of the hill" and reported that there were "sixty four families who lived very well" in the area.[4]
After independence from Spain
editThe Central American United Provinces constitution from 11 October 1822, showed Tejutla under modern San Marcos jurisdiction for the very first time.
In 1871 Tejutla reached "Villa" category and, due to its development, its authorities requested to the House of Representatives of Guatemala to be named a Department capital. The department was going to have the municipalities mentioned above, along with the modern municipalities of Cuilco, Santa Bárbara and San Gaspar, Huehuetenango, from the modern Huehuetenango Department. Besides, in those days, Motocintla, Cacahuatán and Tapachula—which would go definitively to México in 1893 due to the Herrera-Mariscal treaty[5][6]— were under the jurisdiction of the convent located in Tejutla. Furthermore, Tejutla even had House representatives of its own in those days.
But power shifted when the conservatives led by Field Marshal Vicente Cerna were defeated by the liberal forces of generals Miguel Garcia Granados and Justo Rufino Barrios−who was a San Lorenzo native; once the liberals were in power, the expelled the regular clergy from Guatemala and abolished mandatory tithing for the secular clergy, leaving Tejutla without their main administrative and leadership support, the curato. In fact, Barrios government confiscated monasteries, large extensions of farm land, sugar mills and Indian doctrines from the regular orders and then distributed it to his liberal friend and comrades, who became large landowners in the area.[7]
Climate
editConcepción Tutuapa has temperate climate (Köppen: Cwb).
| Climate data for Concepción Tutuapa | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 16.5 (61.7) |
16.7 (62.1) |
18.3 (64.9) |
18.7 (65.7) |
17.7 (63.9) |
16.9 (62.4) |
16.7 (62.1) |
17.2 (63.0) |
16.7 (62.1) |
16.1 (61.0) |
16.7 (62.1) |
16.9 (62.4) |
17.1 (62.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 9.3 (48.7) |
9.3 (48.7) |
10.8 (51.4) |
11.7 (53.1) |
12.0 (53.6) |
12.1 (53.8) |
11.8 (53.2) |
11.7 (53.1) |
11.9 (53.4) |
11.2 (52.2) |
10.5 (50.9) |
10.3 (50.5) |
11.1 (51.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 2.1 (35.8) |
2.0 (35.6) |
3.3 (37.9) |
4.7 (40.5) |
6.4 (43.5) |
7.3 (45.1) |
7.0 (44.6) |
6.3 (43.3) |
7.1 (44.8) |
6.3 (43.3) |
4.4 (39.9) |
3.7 (38.7) |
5.1 (41.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 10 (0.4) |
9 (0.4) |
23 (0.9) |
67 (2.6) |
165 (6.5) |
250 (9.8) |
169 (6.7) |
199 (7.8) |
255 (10.0) |
169 (6.7) |
36 (1.4) |
14 (0.6) |
1,366 (53.8) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[8] | |||||||||||||
See also
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Notes and references
editReferences
edit- ^ "San Marcos elige autoridades municipales". Prensa Libre (in Spanish). Guatemala. 8 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
- ^ Citypopulation.de Population of departments and municipalities
- ^ Fuentes y Guzmán 1932.
- ^ Cortés y Larraz 1770.
- ^ Comisión Guatemalteca de Límites con México (1900). Memoria sobre la cuestión de límites entre Guatemala y México (in Spanish). Guatemala: Tipografía Nacional. p. 325.
- ^ "Nuestras fronteras". La Ilustración Guatemalteca (in Spanish). I (13). Guatemala: Síguere, Guirola y Cía. 1896.
- ^ Castellanos Cambranes, Julio (1992). "5. Tendencias del desarrollo agrario en el siglo XIX y surgimiento de la propiedad capitalista de la tierra en Guatemala" (PDF). 500 años de lucha por la tierra. Estudios sobre propiedad rual y reforma agraria en Guatemala (in Spanish). 1. Guatemala: FLACSO.
- ^ "Climate: Concepción Tutuapa". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
Bibliography
edit- Cortés y Larraz, Pedro (1770). Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala (in Spanish). Guatemala: Diócesis de Guatemala.
- Fuentes y Guzmán, Francisco Antonio de (1932) [1690]. Recordación Florida. Discurso historial y demostración natural, material, militar y política del Reyno de Guatemala. Biblioteca Goathemala de la Sociedad de Geografía e Historia Volumen VI (in Spanish). Vol. I–III. Guatemala: Tipografía Nacional.
- ^ a b SEGEPLAN. "Municipios del departamento de San Marcos". Secretaría General de Planificación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 July 2015.