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Ocampo, Guanajuato

Municipality in Guanajuato, Mexico

Summary

Municipality in Guanajuato, Mexico

Ocampo is a city (and municipality) located in the northwest region of the Mexican state of Guanajuato. The municipality has an area of 1,019.49 square kilometres (3.7% of the surface of the state) and is bordered and to the south and east by San Felipe, to the north by the state of San Luis Potosí, to the west by the state of Jalisco. The municipality had a population of 23,500 inhabitants according to the 2010 census.

The municipality is named after Melchor Ocampo, a 19th-century liberal statesman.

The municipal president of Ocampo and its many smaller outlying communities is Francisco Pedroza

As of 2008 the largest group of immigrants from Ocampo go to Dallas, and the second-largest go to Chicago.

Climate

| Jan record high C = 32 | Feb record high C = 33 | Mar record high C = 36 | Apr record high C = 39 | May record high C = 39.5 | Jun record high C = 39 | Jul record high C = 38.5 | Aug record high C = 35.5 | Sep record high C = 37 | Oct record high C = 35 | Nov record high C = 33 | Dec record high C = 32 | year record high C = | Jan record low C = -9.5 | Feb record low C = -6 | Mar record low C = -4 | Apr record low C = -1.3 | May record low C = 3 | Jun record low C = 5.2 | Jul record low C = 4 | Aug record low C = 5 | Sep record low C = 1.1 | Oct record low C = -1 | Nov record low C = -8 | Dec record low C = -5 | year record low C = |access-date=November 27, 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127170858/https://smn.conagua.gob.mx/tools/RESOURCES/Normales_Climatologicas/Normales9120/gto/nor9120_11050.txt |archive-date=November 27, 2024 |access-date=November 27, 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127170949/https://smn.conagua.gob.mx/tools/RESOURCES/Normales_Climatologicas/Med-Extr/gto/medex11050.txt |archive-date=November 27, 2024

Education

Fifty schools are located in Ocampo. They include:

  • Escuela Primaria 18 de Marzo (La Tinajia area) - In 2008 Jose Juan Salazar, an official from the education department of Ocampo municipality, stated that it was the best school in Ocampo.
  • Gral Vicente Guerrero Urban School #1

References

References

  1. "2005 Census". INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática.
  2. "Mexican Municipality Encyclopedia". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México.
  3. "PAN, truinfa voto conservador {{!}} Revista Contralínea GUANAJUATO, periodismo de investigacion. Mayo 2006 Mexico {{!}} Agosto 2006".
  4. Hernández, Macarena. (2008-06-09). "Education a challenge in small Mexican community with strong ties to Dallas". [[The Dallas Morning News]].
  5. Hernández, Macarena. (2008-06-09). "Hard work translates to success at La Tinaja school in Ocampo". [[The Dallas Morning News]].
  6. Hernández, Macarena. (2008-06-08). "At Ocampo's Guerrero elementary, many students dream of going to America". [[The Dallas Morning News]].
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