San Fernando, Tamaulipas
San Fernando
Municipio de San Fernando | |
|---|---|
City and municipality | |
 Municipal Presidency of San Fernando, Tamaulipas | |
 Coat of arms | |
  San Fernando Location within Tamaulipas  San Fernando Location within Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 24°50′53″N 98°9′34″W / 24.84806°N 98.15944°W | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Tamaulipas |
| Municipality | San Fernando |
| Founded | March 19, 1749 |
| Government | |
| • Presidente Municipal | José Rios Silva |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,091.36 km2 (2,351.89 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 40 m (130 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 28,215[1] |
| • Municipality | 51,405[1] |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| Codigo Postal | 87600 |
| Area code | 841 |
| Website | http://www.sanfernando.gob.mx/ |
San Fernando is a city located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas; it serves as the seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is about 85 miles (137 km) away from Brownsville, Texas, United States.[2] The municipality has a population of 57,220, while the city itself has a population of 29,665.
History
[edit]Massacres
[edit]San Fernando, Tamaulipas, is notorious for experiencing two of the largest recorded massacres of the Mexican drug war. The first massacre, known as the 2010 San Fernando massacre, occurred following a gunfight in Tamaulipas between drug cartel gunmen and Mexican authorities, in which three gunmen and a marine were killed.[3] After the authorities patrolled the nearby area, they discovered 72 bodies in a remote ranch in Tamaulipas.[4] The bodies were found in a room, some of which were piled up on top of each other.[5] It was "the biggest single discovery of its kind" in the ongoing drug war.[3] The 58 men and 14 women were believed to be undocumented migrants from South and Central America trying to cross the border to the United States.[5] A surviving migrant claims that the migrants were kidnapped by the Los Zetas cartel and killed for refusing to do work for them.[6] Twenty one rifles, 101 ammunition clips, four bullet-proof vests, camouflage uniforms and four vehicles were seized by officials.[7]
The second massacre, the 2011 San Fernando massacre, was discovered after Mexican authorities exhumed more than 40 mass graves, with a final body count of 193 corpses.[8]
The massacres and the Mexican government's response are the subject of San Fernando: Última Parada, a book written by journalist Marcela Turati.[9]
Climate
[edit]San Fernando has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa) bordering closely with a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSh).
| Climate data for San Fernando (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 37.6 (99.7) |
39.0 (102.2) |
41.5 (106.7) |
43.5 (110.3) |
46.0 (114.8) |
46.0 (114.8) |
42.0 (107.6) |
42.0 (107.6) |
45.5 (113.9) |
42.2 (108.0) |
42.6 (108.7) |
38.0 (100.4) |
46.0 (114.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 22.4 (72.3) |
24.9 (76.8) |
27.8 (82.0) |
30.6 (87.1) |
33.4 (92.1) |
35.1 (95.2) |
35.4 (95.7) |
36.1 (97.0) |
33.5 (92.3) |
30.7 (87.3) |
26.2 (79.2) |
23.2 (73.8) |
29.9 (85.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 16.4 (61.5) |
18.6 (65.5) |
21.7 (71.1) |
24.7 (76.5) |
27.7 (81.9) |
29.5 (85.1) |
29.8 (85.6) |
30.2 (86.4) |
28.1 (82.6) |
24.8 (76.6) |
20.3 (68.5) |
17.2 (63.0) |
24.1 (75.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 10.4 (50.7) |
12.4 (54.3) |
15.6 (60.1) |
18.7 (65.7) |
22.0 (71.6) |
23.9 (75.0) |
24.2 (75.6) |
24.3 (75.7) |
22.6 (72.7) |
18.9 (66.0) |
14.4 (57.9) |
11.2 (52.2) |
18.2 (64.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −7.5 (18.5) |
−9.5 (14.9) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
1.8 (35.2) |
7.5 (45.5) |
13.4 (56.1) |
17.4 (63.3) |
17.5 (63.5) |
10.2 (50.4) |
1.5 (34.7) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
−8.4 (16.9) |
−9.5 (14.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 28.6 (1.13) |
18.8 (0.74) |
32.3 (1.27) |
35.3 (1.39) |
49.5 (1.95) |
74.7 (2.94) |
60.0 (2.36) |
67.4 (2.65) |
164.3 (6.47) |
84.3 (3.32) |
40.6 (1.60) |
24.8 (0.98) |
680.6 (26.80) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 5.6 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 4.7 | 6.4 | 10.8 | 7.3 | 6.1 | 4.9 | 71.5 |
| Source: Servicio Meteorologico Nacional[10][11] | |||||||||||||
External links
[edit]
- Gobierno Municipal de San Fernando Official website (in Spanish)
References
[edit]- 1 2 ¿Cuántos habitantes tiene... – Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020
- ↑ Schiller, Dane. "Zeta captives have to fight or die." Houston Chronicle at the San Antonio Express-News. Updated Wednesday June 15, 2011. Retrieved on January 4, 2012.
- 1 2 Robin Emmott; Patrick Rucker; Miguel Angel Gutierrez (August 25, 2010). "Drug hitmen dump 72 bodies at Mexican ranch". Reuters. Archived from the original on August 26, 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
- ↑ "72 bodies found on ranch in Mexico". RTÉ News. August 25, 2010. Archived from the original on August 27, 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
- 1 2 "Murdered bodies found in Mexico 'were migrants'". BBC News. August 25, 2010. Archived from the original on August 26, 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
- ↑ William Booth (August 25, 2010). "Survivor: Drug gang massacred 72 migrants in northern Mexico". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
- ↑ "72 bodies found in Mexico ranch". Hindustan Times. August 26, 2010. Archived from the original on August 28, 2010. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
- ↑ "Hallan 7 nuevas narcofosas en San Fernando Tamaulipas suman 193 cadáveres". Milenio TV. June 7, 2011.
- ↑ Turati, Marcela (2023). San Fernando:última parada: viaje al crimen autorizado en Tamaulipas. México: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. ISBN 978-607-38-1205-4.
- ↑ "Estado de Tamaulipas-Estacion: SAN FERNANDO". Normales Climatologicas 1991–2020 (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
- ↑ "Extreme Temperatures and Precipitation for San Fernando" (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
