Abstract

ORTIZ ALVAREZ, María Inés  and  VIDAL ZEPEDA, Rosalía. Exposure to cold winters of the population in Mexico. Invest. Geog [online]. 2006, n.59, pp.93-112. ISSN 2448-7279.

In the present investigation the impact of the cold season of the year is analyzed. It prevails in extensive mountainous regions of the country and exposes to its settlers to low winter temperatures that affect their health and their economy. It is an interdisciplinary study that evaluates the distribution of the population affected by cold and very cold winter on municipal scale, in an extensive region that is identified from the climatological point of view. In the year 2000 the big population affected by this phenomenon represented 69% of the national total, located in 22 federal states grouped in two areas: one to the north and another one to the center of the country. Resulting maps show the distribution of the population in four types of winter, classified by the duration and intensity, according to the number of cold months in which the sharp diminution of the temperature is evident.

Keywords : Climate; winter; population.