Fraijanes
| Fraijanes | |
|---|---|
| Municipality of Guatemala | |
  Fraijanes Location in Guatemala | |
 Fraijanes Location in Guatemala Department | |
| Coordinates: 14°28′N 90°26′W / 14.467°N 90.433°WCoordinates: 14°28′N 90°26′W / 14.467°N 90.433°W | |
| Country |
 Guatemala |
| Department | Guatemala Department |
| Climate | Cwb |
Fraijanes is a municipality in the Guatemala department of Guatemala.
Known for its fine tasting coffee, which is slightly more acidic than that of Antigua Guatemala.
History
Archbishop Pedro Cortés y Larraz wrote in his book Descripción Geográfico-Moral De La Diócesis de Guatemala (English:Moral and geographic description of Guatemala Diocesis), that after the Jesuits were expelled from the Spanish colonies in 1767, the left behind a rich hacienda located in the area where the modern Fraijanes municipality stands, which was given to two secular priest called Juan Milán and Juan Álvarez.[1] These priest earned both the respect and love of the people from the area and in 1860, the region was renamed as "Frailes Juanes", in their honor. Eventually, the name changed into "Fray Juanes" and finally into "Fraijanes".
Jesuit hacienda
In 1646, Fraijanes had been given to the Society of Jesus to establish a doctrine; even though currently there is not any religious evidence left on the ruins, making it difficult to assign them to a regular order in particular, the work from Cortés y Larraz shows that the area belonged to a Jesuit doctrine.[1] Another version suggests that the ruins are from a rich Spanish hacienda, and basis the assumption on the presence of a tunnel that connects the main residence to a small church.[2]
There are several legengs around the ruins. The main one is called «La Cueva del Negro» (English: "The Black Man Cave") which tells the story of a black slave who escaped and sought refure in the abandoned hacienda. At first, he survived by harvesting corn and hunting small animals, but eventually, loneliness drove him mad and turned into a terrible cannibal that tormented the nearby settlements until a peasant killed him.[3]
Climate
Fraijanes has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen: Cwb).
| Climate data for Fraijanes | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 23.2 (73.8) |
24.2 (75.6) |
25.8 (78.4) |
26.3 (79.3) |
25.7 (78.3) |
24.1 (75.4) |
24.2 (75.6) |
24.5 (76.1) |
23.8 (74.8) |
23.4 (74.1) |
23.0 (73.4) |
22.9 (73.2) |
24.26 (75.67) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 17.7 (63.9) |
18.3 (64.9) |
19.5 (67.1) |
20.3 (68.5) |
20.3 (68.5) |
19.7 (67.5) |
19.6 (67.3) |
19.7 (67.5) |
19.4 (66.9) |
19.1 (66.4) |
18.2 (64.8) |
17.7 (63.9) |
19.12 (66.43) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 12.2 (54) |
12.5 (54.5) |
13.2 (55.8) |
14.3 (57.7) |
15.0 (59) |
15.3 (59.5) |
15.1 (59.2) |
14.9 (58.8) |
15.0 (59) |
14.8 (58.6) |
13.5 (56.3) |
12.5 (54.5) |
14.03 (57.24) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 5 (0.2) |
3 (0.12) |
10 (0.39) |
30 (1.18) |
203 (7.99) |
321 (12.64) |
245 (9.65) |
247 (9.72) |
316 (12.44) |
180 (7.09) |
37 (1.46) |
13 (0.51) |
1,610 (63.39) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[4] | |||||||||||||
Government and infrastructure
Pavon Prison and other units of the Dirección General del Sistema Penitenciario de Guatemala are in Fraijanes.[5]
Education
The Lycée Français Jules Verne, an elite French international school, is located in Fraijanes.[6]
Geographic location
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Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala Department municipality | San José Pinula, Guatemala Department municipality | | |
| Villa Canales, Guatemala Department municipality |  |
San José Pinula, Guatemala Department municipality Barberena, Santa Rosa municipality[7] | ||
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| Barberena, Santa Rosa municipality[7] | Barberena, Santa Rosa municipality |
See also
Notes and references
References
- 1 2 Cortés y Larraz, Pedro (2001). García, Jesús María; Blasco, Julio Martín, ed. Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala. Corpus Hispanorum de Pace. Segunda Serie (in Spanish). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. ISBN 9788400080013. ISSN 0589-8056.
- ↑ Ruiz, Viviana (27 November 2011). "Así es Fraijanes, un suspiro de la naturaleza cerca de la ciudad". Prensa Libre (Guatemala). Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ↑ Tecún Espinoza 2012, p. 57.
- ↑ "Climate: Fraijanes". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ↑ "Prisons in Guatemala." Embassy of the United States, Guatemala. Retrieved on March 3, 2016.
- ↑ "Lieu et accès." Lycée Français Jules Verne. Retrieved on 18 January 2015. ""1a Avenida 2-62 Zona1, Aldea Don Justo Km. 18.5 a San Jose Pinula 01062 FRAIJANES"
- 1 2 "Municipios del departamento de Guatemala". SEGEPLAN (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
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