Madera | |
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  Madera Location in Mexico Show map of Mexico Madera Madera (Chihuahua) Show map of Chihuahua | |
| Coordinates:29°11′24″N108°8′29″W / 29.19000°N 108.14139°W /29.19000; -108.14139 | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Chihuahua |
| Municipality | Madera |
| Elevation | 2,112 m (6,929 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 15,447 |
Madera, also known asCiudad Madera, is a town and seat of themunicipality of Madera in the mountains of the northwesternMexicanstate ofChihuahua. As of 2010, the city of Madera had a population of 15,447,[1] up from 15,267 as of 2005.[2]
It is a logging town, located in the mountains and the lumber industry is still very important.Madera is Spanish for "wood", and there used to be a large U.S. company with large lumber mills, there is still a section of the city called "barrio americano" where some American-style wooden houses still survive. New manufacturing industries have created new employment for the residents. It is known as the coldest place in Mexico.
It is at 2,112 metres (6,929 ft) above sea level and was founded in 1906.
The town is located 276 kilometres northwest of the state capital,Chihuahua, and 536 km southwest ofCiudad Juárez on theU.S. border.
Madera has been the starting point of the Cabalgata Binacional Villista (seecavalcade).
Madera is also the place where on September 23, 1965, a guerrilla attack on the military took place; this gave the name to the "Liga 23 de Septiembre," an urban socialist guerrilla group that took the name to commemorate what they considered their martyrs. Chihuahua governorPráxedes Giner Durán ordered the bodies to be buried in a mass grave.[3]
From 25 April 1966 it was the seat of theTerritorial Prelature of Madera; after that was promoted to Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera, with a cathedral in its new seeCuauhtémoc, Madera's San Pedro church, dedicated to Saint Peter, was given the status ofco-cathedral.
Madera is surrounded by the greatSierra Madre mountains (southern stretch of theRocky Mountains in Canada and USA).
Madera’s high altitude gives it awarm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification:Csb) bordering withsubtropical highland climate (Cfb), characterised by warm, wet summers and dry winters with cold nights.Frost occurs most mornings from October to April, but daytime temperatures rise to double digits Celsius. Snow falls on about 7 days per year on average (more often on mountain peaks).
| Climate data for Madera (1991-2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 24 (75) | 28 (82) | 29 (84) | 33 (91) | 37 (99) | 40 (104) | 39 (102) | 36 (97) | 34 (93) | 30 (86) | 28 (82) | 27 (81) | 40 (104) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 14.3 (57.7) | 15.7 (60.3) | 18.7 (65.7) | 22.2 (72.0) | 26.4 (79.5) | 30.2 (86.4) | 27.5 (81.5) | 26.8 (80.2) | 25.9 (78.6) | 22.8 (73.0) | 18.7 (65.7) | 14.6 (58.3) | 22.0 (71.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 3.9 (39.0) | 5.3 (41.5) | 7.8 (46.0) | 10.9 (51.6) | 14.6 (58.3) | 19.0 (66.2) | 19.0 (66.2) | 18.4 (65.1) | 16.7 (62.1) | 12.3 (54.1) | 7.7 (45.9) | 4.0 (39.2) | 11.6 (52.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.5 (20.3) | −5.1 (22.8) | −3.0 (26.6) | −0.4 (31.3) | 2.9 (37.2) | 7.9 (46.2) | 10.5 (50.9) | 9.9 (49.8) | 7.5 (45.5) | 1.7 (35.1) | −3.4 (25.9) | −6.5 (20.3) | 1.3 (34.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −25 (−13) | −21 (−6) | −17 (1) | −11 (12) | −8 (18) | −4 (25) | 2 (36) | 1 (34) | −3 (27) | −11 (12) | −17 (1) | −25 (−13) | −25 (−13) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 39.7 (1.56) | 43.1 (1.70) | 19.5 (0.77) | 8.9 (0.35) | 8.8 (0.35) | 47.6 (1.87) | 157.7 (6.21) | 137.3 (5.41) | 79.5 (3.13) | 36.8 (1.45) | 31.4 (1.24) | 47.2 (1.86) | 657.5 (25.89) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 7.9 | 19.8 | 16.5 | 10.0 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 81.1 |
| Average snowy days(≥1 cm) | 1.33 | 1.58 | 1.45 | 0.39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.75 | 1.40 | 6.94 |
| Source 1: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional[4][5] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Colegio de Postgraduados (snow days)[6] | |||||||||||||
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