Municipio Allende (Chihuahua)

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Allende
location
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat Valle de Ignacio Allende
surface 2,136.8 km²
Residents 8409 (2010)
density 3.94 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 08003
politics
Presidente municipal Blanca Jennyra Figueroa Chavez
Street in the place Pueblito de Allende in the Municipio Allende
Street in the place Pueblito de Allende in the Municipio Allende

Coordinates: 27 ° 3 ′  N , 105 ° 20 ′  W

Allende is a municipality with a good 8400 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality extends over an area of ​​2136.8 km². The administrative seat and largest place in the municipality is Valle de Ignacio Allende .

The municipality was once called Valle de Allende . The municipality bears his name as well as its main town in honor of the Mexican revolutionary Ignacio Allende .

geography

The municipality of Allende is located in the southeast of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1300  m and 2100  m . 97.6% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Sierras y Llanuras del Norte , the rest to the Sierra Madre Occidental . The community area lies entirely in the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos and thus drains into the Gulf of Mexico . The geology of the municipality is determined with over 37.7% of alluvions with 34.2% conglomerate rock and 18% basalt ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are calcisol (49%), leptosol (16%) and phaeozem (11%). 52% of the community area is used as pastureland, 36% is taken up by scrub, 10% is used for arable farming.

The municipality is surrounded by the municipalities Hidalgo del Parral , Valle de Zaragoza , San Francisco de Conchos , Camargo , Jiménez , López , Coronado and Matamoros .

population

The 2010 census counted 8409 people in 2506 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 88 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 68 speakers of the Tarahumara language . About 4.5% of the population was illiterate. 3264 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 75% were men and approx. 4.7% were unemployed. 7.2% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Allende comprises 46 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, twelve towns had a population of over 100. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Valle de Ignacio Allende 4185
Pueblito de Allende 1381
Talamantes 0512
San Antonio del Alto Corralejo 0324

Web links

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