Pico Truncado
| Pico Truncado | |
|---|---|
| Municipality and town | |
| Country |
 Argentina |
| Province | Santa Cruz Province |
Pico Truncado is a town and municipality in Santa Cruz Province in southern Argentina.[1] In 1921, the village's railway station was the site of one of the few open engagements between the Argentine Army and anarchist strikers at the time of the events known as Patagonia rebelde, where the army suffered its only fatality of the campaign.[2]
Climate
Pico Truncado has a cold desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWk) with warm summers and cold winters. Precipitation is sparse, averaging 162 mm a year.
| Climate data for Pico Truncado | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 17.1 (62.8) |
16.6 (61.9) |
14.3 (57.7) |
11.1 (52) |
7.2 (45) |
4.3 (39.7) |
4.1 (39.4) |
5.7 (42.3) |
8.2 (46.8) |
11.1 (52) |
14.1 (57.4) |
16.0 (60.8) |
10.8 (51.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 10.8 (0.425) |
12.5 (0.492) |
15.9 (0.626) |
15.5 (0.61) |
20.1 (0.791) |
18.4 (0.724) |
17.9 (0.705) |
15.6 (0.614) |
8.1 (0.319) |
8.9 (0.35) |
9.0 (0.354) |
9.6 (0.378) |
161.9 (6.374) |
| Average precipitation days | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 5.8 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 54.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 42.6 | 44.2 | 48.2 | 53.4 | 62.2 | 65.8 | 64.8 | 59.6 | 53.1 | 47.1 | 42.8 | 41.2 | 52.1 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 49.7 | 53.6 | 48.8 | 45.5 | 42.8 | 41.3 | 42.4 | 45.7 | 47.1 | 49.9 | 50.3 | 48.3 | 47.1 |
| Source: Weatherbase[3] | |||||||||||||
References
- ↑ Ministerio del Interior (Spanish)
- ↑ La Patagonia rebelde (tomo II: La masacre). Osvaldo Bayer, Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires, (1972), p. 125 (Spanish)
- ↑ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Pico Truncado". Weatherbase. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
Coordinates: 46°47′42″S 67°57′18″W / 46.79500°S 67.95500°W
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