Fraijanes

Fraijanes
Municipality of Guatemala
Fraijanes

Location in Guatemala

Coordinates: 14°28′N 90°26′W / 14.467°N 90.433°W / 14.467; -90.433Coordinates: 14°28′N 90°26′W / 14.467°N 90.433°W / 14.467; -90.433
Country Guatemala
Department Guatemala Department
Area
 • Total 37 sq mi (96 km2)
Elevation 5,200 ft (1,585 m)
Population (2002)
 • Total 32,889
Climate Cwb

Fraijanes is a municipality in the Guatemala department of Guatemala.

Known for its fine tasting coffee, which is slightly more acidic than that of Antigua Guatemala.

History

Ruins of a colonial Jesuit hacienda.

Archbishop Pedro Cortés y Larraz wrote in his book Descripción Geográfico-Moral De La Diócesis de Guatemala (English:Moral and geographic description of Guatemala Diocesis), that after the Jesuits were expelled from the Spanish colonies in 1767, the left behind a rich hacienda located in the area where the modern Fraijanes municipality stands, which was given to two secular priest called Juan Milán and Juan Álvarez.[1] These priest earned both the respect and love of the people from the area and in 1860, the region was renamed as "Frailes Juanes", in their honor. Eventually, the name changed into "Fray Juanes" and finally into "Fraijanes".

Jesuit hacienda

In 1646, Fraijanes had been given to the Society of Jesus to establish a doctrine; even though currently there is not any religious evidence left on the ruins, making it difficult to assign them to a regular order in particular, the work from Cortés y Larraz shows that the area belonged to a Jesuit doctrine.[1] Another version suggests that the ruins are from a rich Spanish hacienda, and basis the assumption on the presence of a tunnel that connects the main residence to a small church.[2]

There are several legengs around the ruins. The main one is called «La Cueva del Negro» (English: "The Black Man Cave") which tells the story of a black slave who escaped and sought refure in the abandoned hacienda. At first, he survived by harvesting corn and hunting small animals, but eventually, loneliness drove him mad and turned into a terrible cannibal that tormented the nearby settlements until a peasant killed him.[3]

Climate

Fraijanes has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen: Cwb).

Climate data for Fraijanes
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 23.2
(73.8)		 24.2
(75.6)		 25.8
(78.4)		 26.3
(79.3)		 25.7
(78.3)		 24.1
(75.4)		 24.2
(75.6)		 24.5
(76.1)		 23.8
(74.8)		 23.4
(74.1)		 23.0
(73.4)		 22.9
(73.2)		 24.26
(75.67)
Daily mean °C (°F) 17.7
(63.9)		 18.3
(64.9)		 19.5
(67.1)		 20.3
(68.5)		 20.3
(68.5)		 19.7
(67.5)		 19.6
(67.3)		 19.7
(67.5)		 19.4
(66.9)		 19.1
(66.4)		 18.2
(64.8)		 17.7
(63.9)		 19.12
(66.43)
Average low °C (°F) 12.2
(54)		 12.5
(54.5)		 13.2
(55.8)		 14.3
(57.7)		 15.0
(59)		 15.3
(59.5)		 15.1
(59.2)		 14.9
(58.8)		 15.0
(59)		 14.8
(58.6)		 13.5
(56.3)		 12.5
(54.5)		 14.03
(57.24)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 5
(0.2)		 3
(0.12)		 10
(0.39)		 30
(1.18)		 203
(7.99)		 321
(12.64)		 245
(9.65)		 247
(9.72)		 316
(12.44)		 180
(7.09)		 37
(1.46)		 13
(0.51)		 1,610
(63.39)
Source: Climate-Data.org[4]

Government and infrastructure

Pavon Prison and other units of the Dirección General del Sistema Penitenciario de Guatemala are in Fraijanes.[5]

Education

The Lycée Français Jules Verne, an elite French international school, is located in Fraijanes.[6]

Geographic location

 Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala Department municipality San José Pinula, Guatemala Department municipality
Villa Canales, Guatemala Department municipality San José Pinula, Guatemala Department municipality
Barberena, Santa Rosa municipality[7]
   Fraijanes  
Barberena, Santa Rosa municipality[7] Barberena, Santa Rosa municipality

See also

Notes and references

    References

    1. 1 2 Cortés y Larraz, Pedro (2001). García, Jesús María; Blasco, Julio Martín, eds. Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala. Corpus Hispanorum de Pace. Segunda Serie (in Spanish). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. ISBN 9788400080013. ISSN 0589-8056.
    2. ↑ Ruiz, Viviana (27 November 2011). "Así es Fraijanes, un suspiro de la naturaleza cerca de la ciudad". Prensa Libre. Guatemala. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
    3. ↑ Tecún Espinoza 2012, p. 57.
    4. ↑ "Climate: Fraijanes". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
    5. ↑ "Prisons in Guatemala." Embassy of the United States, Guatemala. Retrieved on March 3, 2016.
    6. ↑ "Lieu et accès." Lycée Français Jules Verne. Retrieved on 18 January 2015. ""1a Avenida 2-62 Zona1, Aldea Don Justo Km. 18.5 a San Jose Pinula 01062 FRAIJANES"
    7. 1 2 "Municipios del departamento de Guatemala". SEGEPLAN (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
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