asientos

{{Short description|Municipality in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}

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Asientos is a municipality in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. It stands at {{coord|22|14|N|102|05|W|}}. The town of Real de Asientos serves as its municipal seat.

Real de Asientos was declared a Pueblo Mágico by the Mexican Secretariat of Tourism (SECTUR) in 2006.{{cite web|title=Real de Asientos, Aguascalientes {{!}} Secretaría de Turismo|url=http://www.sectur.gob.mx/gobmx/pueblos-magicos/real-de-asientos-aguascalientes/|access-date=2021-03-31|language=es-ES}} As of March 2021 it is one of three Pueblos Mágicos in the state of Aguascalientes.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 45,492.{{cite web|title=Asientos|url=http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=01&mun=002|work=Catálogo de Localidades|publisher=Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL)|accessdate=23 April 2014|archive-date=24 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224232650/http://www.microrregiones.gob.mx/catloc/LocdeMun.aspx?tipo=clave&campo=loc&ent=01&mun=002|url-status=dead}}

Other than the town of Real de Asientos, the municipality had 250 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Villa Juárez (4,888), Ciénega Grande (3,348), classified as urban, and Guadalupe de Atlas (2,259), Lázaro Cárdenas (1,583), Pilotos (1,331), Bimbaletes Aguascalientes (El Álamo) (1,223), Molinos (1,219), El Tule (1,189), Noria del Borrego (Norias) (1,186), Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos (1,074), and Jarillas (1,041), classified as rural.

Geography

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|2010|45492

|2015|46464

|2020|51536

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The municipality of Asientos is located in the north-east of the state and has a territorial area of 547.74 kilometres squared which is equivalent to 9.84% of the total area of the state and it has an altitude ranging from 1800 to 2700 metres above sea level.

It borders the municipality of Tepezalá to the north east, the municipality of Pabellón de Arteaga to the west, the municipalities of San Francisco de los Romo and Aguascalientes to the south east and the municipality of El Llano to the south. In the north and east, it borders the state of Zacatecas, specifically the municipalities of Loreto and Villa García; and in the south east, it borders the state of Jalisco, with the municipality of Ojuelos de Jalisco.

= Climate =

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|location = Asientos (1991–2020)

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|Jan record high C = 30.0

|Feb record high C = 34.0

|Mar record high C = 35.0

|Apr record high C = 39.0

|May record high C = 40.0

|Jun record high C = 39.0

|Jul record high C = 37.0

|Aug record high C = 34.0

|Sep record high C = 33.0

|Oct record high C = 34.0

|Nov record high C = 39.0

|Dec record high C = 39.0

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|Jan high C = 21.8

|Feb high C = 24.3

|Mar high C = 26.3

|Apr high C = 28.0

|May high C = 29.1

|Jun high C = 28.5

|Jul high C = 26.9

|Aug high C = 27.3

|Sep high C = 26.1

|Oct high C = 25.5

|Nov high C = 24.0

|Dec high C = 22.2

|year high C = 25.8

|Jan mean C = 13.4

|Feb mean C = 15.4

|Mar mean C = 17.4

|Apr mean C = 18.9

|May mean C = 20.1

|Jun mean C = 20.3

|Jul mean C = 19.1

|Aug mean C = 19.5

|Sep mean C = 18.5

|Oct mean C = 17.4

|Nov mean C = 15.6

|Dec mean C = 13.7

|year mean C = 17.4

|Jan low C = 4.9

|Feb low C = 6.6

|Mar low C = 8.5

|Apr low C = 9.7

|May low C = 11.2

|Jun low C = 12.0

|Jul low C = 11.2

|Aug low C = 11.7

|Sep low C = 10.9

|Oct low C = 9.2

|Nov low C = 7.3

|Dec low C = 5.2

|year low C = 9.0

|Jan record low C = -7.0

|Feb record low C = -8.0

|Mar record low C = -2.0

|Apr record low C = 0.0

|May record low C = 3.0

|Jun record low C = 3.0

|Jul record low C = 3.0

|Aug record low C = 3.0

|Sep record low C = 2.0

|Oct record low C = 0.0

|Nov record low C = -6.0

|Dec record low C = -8.0

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|Jan precipitation mm = 18.8

|Feb precipitation mm = 15.9

|Mar precipitation mm = 5.2

|Apr precipitation mm = 12.1

|May precipitation mm = 25.3

|Jun precipitation mm = 77.8

|Jul precipitation mm = 89.3

|Aug precipitation mm = 85.8

|Sep precipitation mm = 56.2

|Oct precipitation mm = 24.4

|Nov precipitation mm = 11.7

|Dec precipitation mm = 7.3

|year precipitation mm = 429.8

|source 1 = Servicio Meteorologico Nacional{{cite web

| url = https://smn.conagua.gob.mx/tools/RESOURCES/Normales_Climatologicas/Normales9120/ags/nor9120_01029.txt

| title = Estado de Aguasalientes-Estacion: ASIENTOS

| work = Normales Climatologicas 1991–2020

| publisher = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional

| language = es

| access-date = 15 February 2025}}{{cite web

| url = https://smn.conagua.gob.mx/tools/RESOURCES/Normales_Climatologicas/Med-Extr/ags/medex01029.txt

| title = Extreme for Asientos

| publisher = Servicio Meteorológico Nacional

| language = Spanish

| accessdate = May 8, 2015}}

|date=May 2015

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Government

The government of the municipality consists of the City Council, which is made up of a municipal president, a trustee and a council composed of nine members, five elected by relative majority and four by proportional representation. The city council is elected by universal, direct and secret vote in elections held on the first Sunday of July of the corresponding year.{{cite web|url=http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/ELOC_Periodos_de_gobierno_municipal |title=Periodos de gobierno municipal |accessdate= 19 February 2011 |author= Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110616191719/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/ELOC_Periodos_de_gobierno_municipal |archivedate= 16 June 2011}}

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