Municipio Agua Prieta

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Agua Prieta
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Sonora
Seat Agua Prieta
surface 3,950.2 km²
Residents 79,144 (2010)
density 20 inhabitants per km²
founding 1899
Website aguaprieta.gob.mx
INEGI no. 26002
politics
Presidente municipal Hector David Rubalcava Gastelum

Coordinates: 31 ° 20 ′  N , 109 ° 33 ′  W

The Municipio Agua Prieta is an administrative administrative level in the Mexican state of Sonora .

The main town is Agua Prieta . The community had 79,144 inhabitants in 2010, the community area amounts to 3950.2 km².

geography

The municipality Agua Prieta forms the extreme northeast of the state of Sonora. It is located at an altitude between 800  m and 2500  m about half in the physiographic provinces of Sierra Madre Occidental and the northern mountains and plains. Over 90% of the municipality drains via the Río Yaqui . More than half of the municipality's area is taken up by scrub landscapes, with pastures and forests each making up around 20%.

The municipality of Agua Prieta borders the municipalities Bavispe , Nacozari de García , Fronteras and Naco as well as the state of Chihuahua and the USA .

history

The area of ​​today's municipality was formerly inhabited by the Apaches . The main town Agua Prieta was founded in 1899 . The elevation to the municipality took place in 1916. 1920, in the course of the Mexican Revolution , the plan of Agua Prieta was announced here. The main town of Agua Prieta has been considered a city since 1942.

Places and population

According to the 2010 census, the municipality of Agua Prieta includes 142 inhabited localidades , the largest of which by far is the main town of the same name, Agua Prieta (77,254 inhabitants). Four other localidades had at least 100 inhabitants in 2010: the Centro de Readaptación Social (643), Colonia Morelos (265), El Rusbayo (187) and GM (122). The Centro de Readaptación Social and GM were incorporated into the city of Agua Prieta in 2013.

Of the 79,138 inhabitants of the municipality counted in the 2010 census, 40,117 were male and 440 were speakers of indigenous languages . 5,764 people lived in extreme poverty.

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