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Madera is a town and seat of the municipality of Madera in the mountains of the northwestern Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2010, the city of Madera had a population of 15,447, up from 15,267 as of 2005.
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Map of Ciudad Madera, Chihuahua, Mexico
It is a logging town, located in the mountains and the lumber industry is still very important. Madera is Spanish for "wood", and there used to be a large U.S. company with large lumber mills, there is still a section of the city called "barrio americano" where some American-style wooden houses still survive. New manufacturing industries have created new employment for the residents.
It is at 2112 metres above sea level and was founded in 1906.
The town is located 276 kilometres northwest of the state capital, Chihuahua, and 536 km southwest of Ciudad Juárez on the U.S. border.
History
Madera has been the starting point of the Cabalgata Binacional Villista (see cavalcade).
Madera is also the place where on September 23, 1965, a guerrilla attack on the military took place; this gave the name to the "Liga 23 de Septiembre," an urban socialist guerrilla group that took the name to commemorate what they considered their martyrs.
Religion
From 25 April 1966 it was the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Madera; after that was promoted to Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera, with a cathedral in its new see Cuauhtémoc, Madera's San Pedro church, dedicated to Saint Peter, was given the status of co-cathedral.
Geography
Madera is a beautiful city surrounded by the great Sierra Madre mountains (southern stretch of the Rocky Mountains in Canada and USA).
Climate
Madera’s high altitude gives it a cool subtropical highland climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb), characterised by somewhat warm, wet summers and cold, drier winters. Frost occurs most mornings from October to April, but daytime temperatures remain mild. Snow falls on about 7 days per year on average (more often on mountain peaks).