Peto, Yucatán

Peto is a town and the municipal seat of the Peto Municipality, Yucatán in Mexico. As of 2010, the town has a population of 19,821.^[1]

Peto
Municipal Seat
Church in Peto
Coat of arms
Peto
Coordinates: 20°07′32″N 88°55′17″W
Country	Mexico
State	Yucatán
Municipality	Peto
Founded	1549
Elevation	40 m (130 ft)
Population  (2010)
• Total	19,821[1]
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)
Postal code	97930
Area code	997
Demonym	petuleño, petuleña

Etymology

From the Maya pet crown and uj moon thus meaning crowned moon, in reference to a lunar halo.

Demographics

Geography

Climate

Peto Climate chart (explanation) J F M A M J J A S O N D     81     24 16     31     26 18     29     29 20     94     30 21     181     31 22     212     28 22     232     27 20     257     28 21     290     26 21     243     24 20     90     24 17     53     24 17 █ Average max. and min. temperatures in °C █ Precipitation totals in mm Source: [2][3] Imperial conversion J F M A M J J A S O N D     3.2     75 61     1.2     79 64     1.1     84 68     3.7     86 70     7.1     88 72     8.3     82 72     9.1     81 68     10     82 70     11     79 70     9.6     75 68     3.5     75 63     2.1     75 63 █ Average max. and min. temperatures in °F █ Precipitation totals in inches

List of mayors

• Gerónimo Sánchez (1941-1942)
• Wilfrido Alonso (1943-1944)
• Pedro Muñoz Sánchez (1945-1946)
• Francisco Trejo (1947-1949)
• Rosendo Arrollo (1950-1952)
• Guillermo Baduy Ayala (1953-1955)
• José I. Hernández (1956-1958)
• Nicolás Sogbi Canto (1959-1961)
• Casildo Arroyo (1962-1963)
• Juan Escamilla Sosa (1963)
• Sergio Salazar López (1963-1967)
• Zenón Muñoz Martínez (1968-1970)
• César A. Ruiz V. (1971-1973)
• Mario Arturo Pérez (1974-1975)
• Sergio Salazar López (1976-1978)
• Roger Calero Muñoz (1979-1981)
• Felipe Sosa Buenfil (1982-1984)
• Gilberto Góngora Sánchez (1985-1987)
• Héctor Sosa Duarte (1988-1990)
• José Vicente Domínguez Canto (1991-1993)
• Castulo Ake Can (1994-1995)
• Samuel Castillo Yah (1996-1998)
• Ruperto Sánchez Uluhac -(1999-2001)
• Jorge Román Avilez y Manzanilla (2001-2004)
• Gilberto Alonso Navarrete Vázquez (2004-2007)
• José Vicente Domínguez Canto (2007-2010)
• Martha Raquel González Cámara (2010-2012)
• Higinio Chan Acosta (2012-2015)
• Jaime Ariel Hernández Santos (2015-2018)
• Edgar Román Calderón Sosa (2018-2021)

References

1. "Population and Housing Census 2010". INEGI.org. National Institute of Statistics and Geography. 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
2. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
3. Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. Retrieved 30 January 2016.