Oyotún District
Oyotún | |
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District | |
Country | Peru |
Region | Lambayeque |
Province | Chiclayo |
Founded | November 23, 1925 |
Capital | Oyotún |
Government | |
• Mayor | Segundo Manuel Aguinaga Perez |
Area | |
• Total | 455.4 km2 (175.8 sq mi) |
Elevation | 209 m (686 ft) |
Population (2005 census) | |
• Total | 10,302 |
• Density | 23/km2 (59/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (PET) |
UBIGEO | 140110 |
Oyotún District is one of twenty districts of the province Chiclayo in Peru.[1]
Archaeology
In November 2019, Peruvian archaeologists led by Walter Alva discovered a 3,000-year-old, 130 feet long megalithic 'water cult' temple with 21 tombs in the Zana Valley. Archaeologists assumed that the temple was abandoned around 250 BC and later used as a burial ground by the Chumy people. Twenty of the tombs belonged to the people of Chumy, and one to an adult male buried during the Formative period with a ceramic bottle with two spouts and a bridge handle. According to the excavations, as many as three construction phases took place in the temple: the first was between 1500 BC-800 BC, when people built the foundations of the building from cone-shaped clay; second, between 800 BC-400 BC, when the megalithic temple was built under the influence of the pre-Inca civilization known as the Chavin; and finally 400 BC-100 BC, when people added circular pillars used to hold the roof of the temple.[2]
Climate
Climate data for Oyotún, elevation 187 m (614 ft), (1991−2020) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.6 (88.9) | 31.6 (88.9) | 31.5 (88.7) | 31.1 (88.0) | 29.9 (85.8) | 28.1 (82.6) | 27.4 (81.3) | 27.3 (81.1) | 28.1 (82.6) | 28.6 (83.5) | 29.6 (85.3) | 30.9 (87.6) | 29.6 (85.4) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 20.5 (68.9) | 21.6 (70.9) | 21.6 (70.9) | 20.0 (68.0) | 17.9 (64.2) | 16.2 (61.2) | 14.8 (58.6) | 14.6 (58.3) | 14.9 (58.8) | 15.7 (60.3) | 16.4 (61.5) | 18.5 (65.3) | 17.7 (63.9) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 39.3 (1.55) | 86.7 (3.41) | 109.3 (4.30) | 36.3 (1.43) | 7.2 (0.28) | 2.9 (0.11) | 1.5 (0.06) | 0.7 (0.03) | 4.2 (0.17) | 6.3 (0.25) | 7.2 (0.28) | 14.1 (0.56) | 315.7 (12.43) |
Source: National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru[3] |
Climate data for El Espinal, Oyotún, elevation 371 m (1,217 ft), (1991) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 30.1 (86.2) | 29.9 (85.8) | 30.0 (86.0) | 29.4 (84.9) | 28.5 (83.3) | 27.6 (81.7) | 27.5 (81.5) | 27.4 (81.3) | 27.9 (82.2) | 28.2 (82.8) | 28.6 (83.5) | 29.6 (85.3) | 28.7 (83.7) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 19.9 (67.8) | 20.8 (69.4) | 20.7 (69.3) | 19.6 (67.3) | 17.6 (63.7) | 15.9 (60.6) | 14.8 (58.6) | 14.6 (58.3) | 15.1 (59.2) | 15.6 (60.1) | 16.4 (61.5) | 18.1 (64.6) | 17.4 (63.4) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 34.6 (1.36) | 93.5 (3.68) | 120.8 (4.76) | 59.8 (2.35) | 17.3 (0.68) | 5.1 (0.20) | 3.4 (0.13) | 2.2 (0.09) | 7.2 (0.28) | 13.0 (0.51) | 11.7 (0.46) | 17.7 (0.70) | 386.3 (15.2) |
Source: National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru[4] |
References
- ^ (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
- ^ Saplakoglu, Yasemin (November 20, 2019). "Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Megalithic Temple Used by a 'Water Cult'". livescience.com. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
- ^ "Normales Climáticas Estándares y Medias 1991-2020". National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ "Normales Climáticas Estándares y Medias 1991-2020". National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
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