Sipacate | |
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Municipality and town | |
  Sipacate Location in Guatemala | |
| Coordinates:13°56′0″N91°09′0″W / 13.93333°N 91.15000°W /13.93333; -91.15000 | |
| Country |  Guatemala |
| Department | Escuintla Department |
| Founded | 2015-10-14 |
| Area | |
• Municipality and town | 265 km2 (102 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 4 m (13 ft) |
| Population (2018 census)[1] | |
• Municipality and town | 16,234 |
| • Density | 61.3/km2 (159/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 9,959 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Time Zone) |
Sipacate is aresort town and municipality on thePacific coast ofGuatemala, inEscuintla Department about 36 kilometres (22 mi) west ofPuerto San José. It is promoted as a venue forsurfing. Being roughly in the center of the Guatemalan coastline, it is used as a breakpoint forstorm warnings. TheSipicate-Naranjo National Park is located east of the town.The municipality was formerly a part ofLa Gomera Municipality just north of Sipacate.
Some very early human settlements are documented in Sipacate, connected with early agriculture.
In sum, sediments sampled in the Sipacate locality appear to document two distinct waves of deforestation associated with early horticulture. The earliest began shortly after 3500 cal B.C. and involved multiple episodes of forest clearance over the next 800 years. The second began after 1700 cal B.C. and coincides with the archaeologically documented presence of Early Formative populations.[2]
Sipacate has tropical climate (Köppen:Aw).
| Climate data for Sipacate | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 32.5 (90.5) | 33.1 (91.6) | 33.7 (92.7) | 34.2 (93.6) | 33.5 (92.3) | 32.1 (89.8) | 32.4 (90.3) | 32.7 (90.9) | 32.0 (89.6) | 31.8 (89.2) | 32.3 (90.1) | 32.6 (90.7) | 32.7 (90.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.0 (78.8) | 26.6 (79.9) | 27.5 (81.5) | 28.6 (83.5) | 27.7 (81.9) | 27.7 (81.9) | 27.7 (81.9) | 27.5 (81.5) | 27.0 (80.6) | 27.1 (80.8) | 26.7 (80.1) | 26.7 (80.1) | 27.2 (81.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 19.5 (67.1) | 20.1 (68.2) | 21.4 (70.5) | 23.0 (73.4) | 23.7 (74.7) | 23.4 (74.1) | 23.0 (73.4) | 22.8 (73.0) | 23.0 (73.4) | 22.2 (72.0) | 21.9 (71.4) | 20.8 (69.4) | 22.1 (71.7) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 2 (0.1) | 1 (0.0) | 9 (0.4) | 44 (1.7) | 166 (6.5) | 274 (10.8) | 242 (9.5) | 224 (8.8) | 287 (11.3) | 275 (10.8) | 43 (1.7) | 4 (0.2) | 1,571 (61.8) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[3] | |||||||||||||
Sipacate is surrounded byEscuintla Departament municipalities and by thePacific Ocean.[4]
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