Municipio Asientos
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Aguascalientes | |
| Seat | Asientos | |
| surface | 549.1 km² | |
| Residents | 45,492 (2010) | |
| density | 82.8 inhabitants per km² | |
| INEGI no. | 01002 | |
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| Presidente municipal | Lorenzo Martín Carrillo Lara | |
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Coordinates: 22 ° 14 ′ N , 102 ° 5 ′ W
Asientos is the name of one of the eleven Municipios of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes . The administrative seat of the municipality is Asientos of the same name , while the largest town is Villa Juárez . The municipality has 45,492 inhabitants (2010) and covers an area of 549.1 km².
geography
The municipality Asientos is located in the east of the state of Aguascalientes at an altitude between 2000 m and 2600 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Mesa del Centro . A good 86% of the municipality is in the catchment area of the Río Lerma and thus drains into the Pacific , the rest is in the endorheic hydrological region of El Salado . The geology of the municipality consists of 41% alluvion , 33% rhyolite tuff , 19% sedimentary rock and 7% metamorphic ; Soil type of 53% of the municipality is the Durisol with 32% Leptosol . 65% of the community area is used for arable farming, 22% is covered by scrub, about 12% is used as pasture.
The Municipio Asientos borders the Municipios Tepezalá , El Llano , Aguascalientes , San Francisco de los Romo and Pabellón de Arteaga as well as the states of Jalisco and Zacatecas .
population
The 2010 census counted 45,492 people in 10,007 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 47 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . About 5.5% of the population were illiterate. 14,319 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 78% were men and approx. 7.6% were unemployed. About eight percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Asientos comprises 168 inhabited localidades , of which the main town as well as Villa Juárez and Ciénega Grande are classified as urban by the INEGI . Twelve places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, another 37 places had at least 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
| place | Residents |
| Villa Juarez | 4888 |
| Asientos | 4517 |
| Ciénega Grande | 3348 |
| Guadalupe de Atlas | 2259 |
| Lázaro Cárdenas | 1583 |
| Pilotos | 1331 |
| Bimbaletes Aguascalientes ( El Álamo ) | 1223 |
| Molinos | 1219 |
| El Tule | 1189 |
| Noria del Borrego ( Norias ) | 1186 |
| Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos | 1074 |
| Jarillas | 1041 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Asientos (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Asientos (Spanish; PDF)
