Salt Lake City, Utah
According to CountryAAH.com, Salt Lake City is the capital and the largest city of the state of Utah (United States). In 2008 its population was 181 698 residents in the city and just over 2 million residents counting the metropolitan area that it forms together with neighboring cities.
Background
It was founded in 1847 by a group of Mormons, a church led at that time by its creator, Brigham Young).
It is located just south-east of the Great Salt Lake.
It is the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as Mormons). As the headquarters of the Mormon church, the city still preserves many buildings that were built when the Mormons arrived in this region in 1847, for example:
House of the Lion (Lion House) which was the nickname of Brigham Young (who also called himself “Young Prophet”).
The Deseret Village (Desert Village)
The Salt Lake City temple.
The Mormon church also maintains the largest family registration center in the world, with free services to the public.
Located at the foot of the Wasatch range to be a great recreation center and has one of the largest financial industries in the entire United States.
In the winter of 2002 Salt Lake City was the host city of the Olympic Games of Winter.
History
Before the settlement of Europeans around the 19th century, the Shoshone, Paiute, and other Native American tribes had already dwelt in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years.
The first known exploration was carried out by the Franciscan missionary Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and his men in 1776.
The first Mormon settlers settled in the valley on July 24, 1847.
It was built (Temple Square), in an area called the temple square located in the center of the city. It took 40 years to complete the temple, being dedicated on April 6, 1893. Today it is the best-known building in the entire city.
In 1911 the city elected for the first time a mayor who worked to improve the precarious infrastructures available to the city.
In 1929 the Great Crak hit the city hard and caused many of the 61,000 people who lived in the city at that time to lose their jobs and their homes and were forced to live on the streets.
During the Second World War, military bases were established in the city and at the end of the war the city grew rapidly, recovering a good economy.
The 20th century can be defined as a period of great economic and population growth for the city, since at the beginning of the century some 53,531 people lived in the city who had a per capita income of about $ 200 and at the end of the century lived in the city. city 159,936 people with a per capita income of $ 24,000, which meant tripling the population and multiplying the per capita income by 120.
During the 21st century the city continues to grow and change and the city council has arranged for a progressive renovation of the buildings in the Financial District to help improve the economy of the city.
Also in recent years, the increase in immigration is turning the city into a multicultural society in which 15% of Hispanics coexist, who are already the most important minority not only in the city but in the entire state of Utah.
Climate
According to Abbreviationfinder, Salt Lake City’s climate is defined as a semi-arid steppe climate with four distinct seasons. Summer and winter are long and spring and fall are short. Summers in the city are characterized by its hot and very dry climate.
The monsoon arrives from the Gulf of California from mid-July through September, producing several focused storms in the afternoons.
Winters are cold and with a lot of precipitation in the form of snow. Spring and fall are comfortable transition periods between winter and summer.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Study in Scarlet is described in popular culture as a dystopian colony ruled by Brigham Young’s autocracy and his armed wing, the Avengers Angels.
Population
The population census of the year 2000 in Salt Lake City there are 180,651 people who live in 71,461 houses and that form 39,803 families.
This amounts to 8.1% of the total Utah population, 20.2% of the total Salt Lake County population, and 13.6% of the total Salt Lake metropolitan area population.
Salt Lake City has a population density of 643.3 residents per km2. The population of the metropolitan area of the city amounts to more than 1,300,000 people who live in Salt Lake City and the neighboring cities of Salt Lake County.
23.6% of the city’s population is under 18, 15.2% is between 18 and 24, 33.4% is between 25 and 44, 16.7% is between 45 and 64 and a 11.0% of the city’s population is 65 years or older, which gives an average age of around 30 years. For every 102 men there are 100 women, 10.2% of the city’s population lives below the poverty line, and more than 50% of the city’s population is a member of the Mormon Church.
