Apatzingán

{{Infobox settlement  | name = Apatzingán | official_name = Apatzingán de la Constitución | native_name = | native_name_lang =  | settlement_type = City and municipality | image_skyline = File:Catedral de Apatzingan 2019.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Apatzingán, Michoacán Mexico | image_flag = | flag_alt = | image_shield = Escudo de apatzingan.jpg | shield_alt = | nicknames = La Perla de Tierra Caliente, Cuna de la Constitución Mexicana | motto = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Mexico Michoacán#Mexico | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Apatzingán in Mexico | coordinates = {{coord|19|05|19|N|102|21|03|W|display=inline,title}} | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Mexico | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Michoacán | subdivision_type2 = Municipality | subdivision_name2 = | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | established_title = Founded | established_date = 1617 | founder = | seat_type = | seat = | government_footnotes = | leader_party = PRI | leader_title = Municipal President | leader_name = Jose Torres | unit_pref = Metric   | area_footnotes = | area_urban_footnotes =  | area_rural_footnotes =  | area_metro_footnotes =  | area_magnitude =  | area_note = | area_water_percent = | area_rank = | area_blank1_title = | area_blank2_title =  | area_total_km2 = 24 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | area_urban_km2 = | area_rural_km2 = | area_metro_km2 = | area_blank1_km2 = | area_blank2_km2 =  | area_total_ha = | area_land_ha = | area_water_ha = | area_urban_ha = | area_rural_ha = | area_metro_ha = | area_blank1_ha = | area_blank2_ha = | length_km = | width_km = | dimensions_footnotes = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 325 | population_footnotes = <ref name="INEGI">{{cite web |url=http://www.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/consulta_resultados/iter2010.aspx?c=27329&s=est |title=Principales resultados por localidad 2010 (ITER) |year=2010 |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía}}</ref> | population_total = 102362 | population_as_of = 2020 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_blank1_title= Municipality | population_blank1= 126191 | population_demonym = | population_note = | timezone1 = CST | utc_offset1 = -6 | timezone1_DST = CDT | utc_offset1_DST = -5 | postal_code_type = | postal_code = 60600 - 60753 | area_code_type = | area_code = 453 | iso_code = | website = {{URL|http://www.apatzingan.gob.mx|Official website}} | footnotes = }}

'''Apatzingán''' (in full, '''Apatzingán de la Constitución''') is a city and municipal seat of the municipality of Apatzingán in the west-central region of the Mexican state of Michoacán.

==History== Mexico's Constitution of Apatzingán was signed in the city in 1814, during the Mexican War of Independence in the Viceroyalty of New Spain against the Spanish Empire.

Six federal police officers were charged with murder on August 21, 2019 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.<ref>{{citation|website=Informador.mx |title=Detienen a seis policías federales por matanza de 2015 en Apatzingán|url=https://www.informador.mx/mexico/Detienen-a-seis-policias-federales-por-matanza-de-2015-en--Apatzingan-20190822-0053.html|date=August 22, 2019|access-date=August 22, 2019|language=es|trans-title=Arrest six federal police for killing in 2015 in Apatzingan}}</ref>

==Geography== The Municipality of Apatzingán is located in the Tierra Caliente Valley. It has an area of 1,656.67 km<sup>2</sup> (639.64 sq mi), and reported a population of 99,010 (2010).

The city of Apatzingán is the sixth-largest in Michoacán (behind Morelia, Uruapan, Zamora, Lázaro Cárdenas, and Zitácuaro), with a 2015 census population of 128,250 persons. The major Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range and the municipality of Coalcomán de Vázquez Pallares are to the west.

[[File:Apatzigán in Tierra Caliente.png|250px|thumb|Apatzingán in the Tierra Caliente region.]] ===Climate=== Despite having an annual precipitation of {{convert|752|mm|in|1}}, Apatzingán has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification ''BSh'') due to its hot temperatures and high evaporation rates.<ref>{{cite journal| last = Kottek | first = M.|author2=J. Grieser |author3=C. Beck |author4=B. Rudolf |author5=F. Rubel | title =World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated| journal =Meteorol. Z.| volume =15 | pages =259–263| url =http://www.schweizerbart.de/resources/downloads/paper_free/55034.pdf| doi =10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0130| access-date =28 August 2012| year =2006| issue = 3}}</ref> <div style="width:70%;"> {{Weather box |location = Apatzingán |metric first = yes |single line = yes |Jan record high C = 38.0 |Feb record high C = 39.0 |Mar record high C = 42.0 |Apr record high C = 43.0 |May record high C = 46.5 |Jun record high C = 44.0 |Jul record high C = 43.0 |Aug record high C = 39.5 |Sep record high C = 39.0 |Oct record high C = 41.5 |Nov record high C = 43.0 |Dec record high C = 37.0 |Jan high C = 32.3 |Feb high C = 33.8 |Mar high C = 36.4 |Apr high C = 39.0 |May high C = 40.0 |Jun high C = 37.8 |Jul high C = 34.7 |Aug high C = 34.1 |Sep high C = 33.7 |Oct high C = 34.1 |Nov high C = 34.0 |Dec high C = 32.9 |year high C = 35.2 |Jan mean C = 24.7 |Feb mean C = 26.0 |Mar mean C = 28.4 |Apr mean C = 30.7 |May mean C = 32.7 |Jun mean C = 31.6 |Jul mean C = 29.2 |Aug mean C = 28.5 |Sep mean C = 28.2 |Oct mean C = 28.2 |Nov mean C = 27.3 |Dec mean C = 25.7 |year mean C = 28.4 |Jan low C = 17.1 |Feb low C = 18.1 |Mar low C = 20.3 |Apr low C = 22.4 |May low C = 25.4 |Jun low C = 25.5 |Jul low C = 23.6 |Aug low C = 22.9 |Sep low C = 22.7 |Oct low C = 22.2 |Nov low C = 20.7 |Dec low C = 18.5 |year low C = 21.6 |Jan record low C = 8.5 |Feb record low C = 10.0 |Mar record low C = 13.0 |Apr record low C = 13.0 |May record low C = 17.5 |Jun record low C = 15.0 |Jul record low C = 17.0 |Aug record low C = 18.5 |Sep record low C = 19.0 |Oct record low C = 14.0 |Nov record low C = 11.0 |Dec record low C = 10.0 |precipitation colour= green |Jan precipitation mm = 17.1 |Feb precipitation mm = 1.1 |Mar precipitation mm = 0.8 |Apr precipitation mm = 0.6 |May precipitation mm = 11.2 |Jun precipitation mm = 129.5 |Jul precipitation mm = 166.2 |Aug precipitation mm = 175.2 |Sep precipitation mm = 148.5 |Oct precipitation mm = 81.9 |Nov precipitation mm = 14.6 |Dec precipitation mm = 5.2 |year precipitation mm = 751.9 |unit precipitation days= 0.1 mm |Jan precipitation days = 1.3 |Feb precipitation days = 0.4 |Mar precipitation days = 0.3 |Apr precipitation days = 0.2 |May precipitation days = 1.6 |Jun precipitation days = 11.4 |Jul precipitation days = 14.6 |Aug precipitation days = 14.3 |Sep precipitation days = 12.3 |Oct precipitation days = 5.6 |Nov precipitation days = 1.5 |Dec precipitation days = 0.6 |year precipitation days= 64.1 |source 1=Servicio Meteorologico Nacional<ref name=SMN>[https://archive.today/20130221091800/http://smn.cna.gob.mx/climatologia/normales/estacion/mich/NORMAL16007.TXT Normales Climatológicas 1971-2000] (in Spanish). National Meteorological Service of Mexico. Retrieved August 28, 2012.</ref> |date=August 2012}} </div>

==References== {{Reflist}}

===Sources=== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070328224939/http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/ Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005] Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110517162648/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/EMM_michoacan Michoacán] Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México * [http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/384222927_c979bb8bc4.jpg?v=0"] Photograph from Apatzingan's main church

==External links== * [http://www.apatzingan.gob.mx/ Ayuntamiento de Apatzingán] Official website * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718113659/http://www.inafed.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/michoacan/mpios/mapas/map006.jpg Apatzingan Map]

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