Municipio Arroyo Seco

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Arroyo Seco
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Querétaro
Seat Arroyo Seco
surface 734.1 km²
Residents 12,910 (2010)
density 17.6 inhabitants per km²
founding 1933
Website arroyoseco.gob.mx
INEGI no. 22003
politics
Presidente municipal María Dionicia Loredo Suárez
Main square of Arroyo Seco
Main square of Arroyo Seco

Coordinates: 21 ° 30 ′  N , 99 ° 39 ′  W

Arroyo Seco is a municipality in the Mexican state of Querétaro . The municipality covers an area of ​​734 km². In 2010, Pinal de Amoles had a population of 12,910 people. The administrative seat of the municipality is the Arroyo Seco of the same name , while Purísima de Arista is the most populous place .

Part of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve is located in the municipality .

geography

The municipality Arroyo Seco is located in the north of the state of Querétaro at an altitude between 400  m and 2600  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Oriental and lies entirely in the catchment area of ​​the Río Pánuco and thus drains into the Gulf of Mexico . The predominant rock types are the sedimentary rocks limestone (73%) and limestone lutite (13%) with 8.5% basalt . Soil type of 41% of the municipality is the Leptosol , followed by 38% Luvisol , 10% Cambisol and 6% Vertisol . About 81% of the community area is forested, 12% are used for agriculture, 6% as pasture land.

The municipality Arroyo Seco borders on the municipalities Jalpan de Serra and Pinal de Amoles as well as the states of Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí .

population

In the 2010 census, 12,910 people in 3,284 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 51 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . A good 14.5% of the population were illiterate. 3,451 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 76% were men or just under 14% were unemployed. 19 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Arroyo Seco comprises 88 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three towns had a population of over 1,000, while 62 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Purísima de Arista 2304
Arroyo Seco 1425
Concá 1213

Web links

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