Chinique | |
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Country | ![]() |
Department | ![]() |
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 from adobe with thatched roofs. [3] Its population as of 2023 is 14,052. [4]
Climate data for Chinique | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °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) |
Mean daily minimum °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] |