About

The name of the city (Aguascalientes means “hot waters” in Spanish) comes from the abundance of thermal water in this zone.

Its foundation by royal decree in 1575, under the name of “Villa de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de las Aguas Calientes”, was mainly due to the necessity to give shelter, refuge and protection to the travelers that passed by the “Ruta de la Plata” – the Silver Road.

Today, Aguascalientes City is the capital of eponymous state and is located in the north central region of Mexico.

The city is located at an altitude of1,867 metres and enjoys a semi-desert climate with 611.8 millimeters of average annual precipitation and the mean annual temperature of 18.2°C.

The city population is 663,671 which represents 62.29% of the state population. The city covers the surface of 115.87 square kilometers – nearly 10% of the state´s surface.

 

Strategy

Under the Municipal Climate Change Strategy, the city has set up a Climate Change Subcommittee with the objective of creating a multidisciplinary group which will implement, guide and evaluate the actions of this strategy.

The strategy’s key areas of intervention are:

• Solid Waste
• Energy
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Transport

And the main programmes under the strategy are:
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: to implement measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, including:

• Motor Vehicle Tune Up Program
• Landfill Biogas Capture Program
• Infrastructure for the Non-polluting Vehicles Program (Cyclovia  and Suburban Train)
• Public Lighting Upgrade using Energy Saving and Solar Lights
• Municipal Motor Vehicle Fleet Improvement or Renewal Program                  
• Environmental Upgrade of the Municipal Administration Program
• Forest Fires Prevention and Combating.
• Urban Solid Waste Recycling Program.
• Brick Production Modernization

Mitigating Climate Change Effects: to execute actions that counteract the greenhouse gas effect in the atmosphere and the global warming.

• Produce Useful Plants for Reforestation Program
• Natural and Urban Reforestation Program
• Promotion of a Climate Change Investigation
• Natural Areas Conservation and Restoration Program
• City Air Quality Monitoring Program

Climate Change Adaptation: to adopt necessary measures that allow social and natural adaptation to the new environmental conditions imposed by climate change.

• Land Ecological Order Program
• Water Integral and Sustainable Management Program
• Climate Change Urban Infrastructure Adaptation Program
• Sustainable Agriculture Program
• Drought Contingency Plan
• FloodContingency Plan
• Climate Change Human Health Threat Contingency Plan

Environmental Education: to develop programmes, materials and capacities to raise public awareness of the causes, effects and future scenarios of climate change, and to promote new societal attitudes and habits toward this phenomenon.

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