Municipio Badiraguato
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Sinaloa | |
| Seat | Badiraguato | |
| surface | 4,845.9 km² | |
| Residents | 29,999 (2010) | |
| density | 6.19 inhabitants per km² | |
| Website | badiraguato.gob.mx | |
| INEGI no. | 25003 | |
Coordinates: 25 ° 21 ′ N , 107 ° 33 ′ W
Badiraguato is a municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa . The seat of the municipality is the Badiraguato of the same name . The community had 29,999 inhabitants in 2010, its area is 4845.9 km².
geography
The municipality of Badiraguato is located at an altitude between 30 m and 2900 m in the physiographic province of Sierra Madre Occidental . Most of the municipality lies in the area of influence of the Río Culiacán , smaller parts drain over the Río Sinaloa or Río Mocorito . The largest body of water in Badiraguato is the reservoir on the Presa Adolfo López Mateos . Geologically, the municipality is dominated by extrusive igneous rock, especially rhyolite ; the most present soil types are Leptosol , Luvisol and Phaeozem . Over 90% of the municipality is occupied by forests of various types.
The municipality of Badiraguato borders the municipalities of Sinaloa , Mocorito and Culiacán as well as the states of Chihuahua and Durango .
Places and population
According to the 2010 census, the municipality Badiraguato comprises 482 inhabited localidades , only the main town Badiraguato is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, five towns had a population of over 500.
| place | Residents |
| Badiraguato | 3,725 |
| Surutato | 869 |
| San Jose del Llano | 722 |
| Tameapa | 623 |
| Otatillos | 506 |
The municipality still had 37,757 inhabitants in 2000, but the population fell to 29,999 in the 2010 census. During the same period, the number of indigenous inhabitants fell from 258 to 163. 76 people were registered in 2010 as speakers of an indigenous language . The predominant religion is Catholicism. More than 21% of the municipality's population lived in extreme poverty in 2010, another 53% in moderate poverty.
economy
According to Census 2010 were at that time 10,027 inhabitants than the labor force , of which only 1,118 female persons or about 2.5% were unemployed.
After opium was banned internationally in the 1920s, Mexican opium cultivation shifted from the coast to the hilly hinterland of the Sierra Madre Occidental , where the Municipio Badiraguato also gained prominence in connection with the drug business. Marijuana was also grown early in this area and smuggled into the USA.
The places of birth of drug lords such as Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo , Rafael Caro Quintera , Ismael Zambada García , the Beltrán-Leyva brothers and El Chapo are in the widely scattered and difficult-to-access towns of the Municipio Badiraguato . The area is considered the home and retreat of the members of the Sinaloa cartel .
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Badiraguato (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Badiraguato (Spanish; PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblas Indígenas (INEGI 2000)
- ↑ Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblas Indígenas (INEGI 2010)
- ^ Secretaría de Desarrollo Social : Informe Anual Sobre La Situación de Pobreza y Rezago Social: Badiraguato, Sinaloa
- ^ Badiraguato, Sinaloa: Birthplace of Narcos, Sinking in Poverty. Borderland Beat, February 23, 2011, accessed March 22, 2014 .
