Bernal, Querétaro
San Sebastián Bernal, better known as Bernal (Spanish: [beɾˈnal] ⓘ; from Basque Vernal, "place of stones or boulders"), is a colonial village in the Mexican state of Querétaro. It was founded in 1642 by Spanish soldier Alonso Cabrera.[1]
Bernal
| |
|---|---|
 Bernal and the Peña de Bernal | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Querétaro |
| Municipality | Ezequiel Montes |
| Founded | 1647 |
| Population | |
| • Total | 3,965 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
Bernal is located 40 minutes by road from state capital Santiago de Querétaro and two and a half hours from Mexico City.[2] It is located in Ezequiel Montes municipality, a few minutes from Colón and Cadereyta.[2]
It has a current population of 2909, of which 1377 are males and 1532 are females. A total of 1014 persons are counted as Economic Active Population and there are only 630 inhabited homes in town.[3]
It is known for its enormous monolith of massive rock, the Peña de Bernal, the third highest on the planet.[2]
According to chronicler Omar Ortega Paz, its names in the Otomi language (De'hendo) and in Chichimeca (Ma'hando) have the same meaning: “In the middle of two”.[4]
In 2005, Bernal was designated a Pueblo Mágico ("Magical Town") by the Mexican Secretariat of Tourism (SECTUR).[5] The Magical Towns are admitted for being localities that have magic symbolic attributes, legends, history, transcendental facts that associate in each of its cultural manifestations, and that today mean a great opportunity for tourism.[2]
Climate
| Climate data for Bernal, Querétaro (1981-2010), extremes (1973-present) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 30.0 (86.0) |
33.0 (91.4) |
40.0 (104.0) |
40.0 (104.0) |
38.0 (100.4) |
37.0 (98.6) |
35.0 (95.0) |
33.0 (91.4) |
33.0 (91.4) |
36.0 (96.8) |
32.0 (89.6) |
31.0 (87.8) |
40.0 (104.0) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 22.7 (72.9) |
24.5 (76.1) |
27.4 (81.3) |
29.7 (85.5) |
29.3 (84.7) |
27.3 (81.1) |
25.2 (77.4) |
25.7 (78.3) |
24.7 (76.5) |
24.3 (75.7) |
24.5 (76.1) |
23.0 (73.4) |
25.7 (78.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 13.4 (56.1) |
15.0 (59.0) |
17.6 (63.7) |
19.9 (67.8) |
20.2 (68.4) |
19.6 (67.3) |
18.3 (64.9) |
18.6 (65.5) |
18.0 (64.4) |
16.9 (62.4) |
15.6 (60.1) |
14.0 (57.2) |
17.3 (63.1) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 4.1 (39.4) |
5.4 (41.7) |
7.9 (46.2) |
10.2 (50.4) |
11.1 (52.0) |
12.0 (53.6) |
11.5 (52.7) |
11.4 (52.5) |
11.3 (52.3) |
9.4 (48.9) |
6.7 (44.1) |
5.0 (41.0) |
8.8 (47.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −9.0 (15.8) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
2.0 (35.6) |
4.0 (39.2) |
6.0 (42.8) |
1.0 (33.8) |
0.5 (32.9) |
4.0 (39.2) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
−9.0 (15.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 10.0 (0.39) |
6.0 (0.24) |
11.8 (0.46) |
25.1 (0.99) |
39.4 (1.55) |
70.8 (2.79) |
94.2 (3.71) |
80.6 (3.17) |
72.1 (2.84) |
41.5 (1.63) |
11.9 (0.47) |
2.1 (0.08) |
465.5 (18.33) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 2.7 | 5.1 | 7.1 | 7.9 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 4.4 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 49.3 |
| Source: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (temperature, 1981-2010) [6] | |||||||||||||
References
- "querétaro-méxico". Ezequiel Montes Querétaro. Archived from the original on 2008-01-29. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
- "de-paseo". Bernal Pueblo Mágico. Archived from the original on 2010-02-10. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
- "INEGI". Archived from the original on 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
- Serie de Cronistas del Renacimiento Mexicano: Bernal, Libro-Guia de Turismo. p. 7.
- "Bernal, Querétaro | Secretaría de Turismo" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2021-03-31.
- "Extreme Temperatures and Precipitation for Bernal 1981-2010" (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
