Municipio Batopilas

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Batopilas
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat Batopilas
surface 2,140.8 km²
Residents 14,362 (2010)
density 6.71 inhabitants per km²
founding 1812
INEGI no. 08008
politics
Presidente municipal Israel Varela Ordoñez
Old railway bridge not far from Batopilas
Old railway bridge not far from Batopilas

Coordinates: 27 ° 0 ′  N , 107 ° 42 ′  W

Batopilas is a municipality with a good 14,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​2,140.8 km². The administrative seat and largest place in the municipality is the Pueblo Mágico Batopilas of the same name .

geography

The Municipio Batopilas is located in the southwest of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 300  m and 2800  m . Located in the Barranca del Cobre area, it belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental . It lies entirely in the hydrological region of Sinaloa and drains over the Río Fuerte into the Gulf of California . The geology of the municipality is determined by 79% rhyolite tuff with 9% sandstone tuff, 8% conglomerate rock and 5% granodiorite ; The dominant soil types in the municipality are Leptosol (42%), Regosol (35%), Luvisol (13%) and Phaeozem (10%). 90% of the municipality is forested, 6% serve as pastureland.

The municipality is surrounded by the municipalities Guachochi , Urique and Morelos and borders on the state of Sinaloa .

population

The 2010 census counted 14,362 people in 3017 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 6,462 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 5,986 speakers of the Tarahumara language . About 38% of the population were illiterate. 4552 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 88% were men or 1.1% were unemployed. 55% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Batopilas comprises 424 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 24 towns had a population of over 100. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Batopilas 1220
Yoquivo 0831
Polanco ( Ranchería Mineral Polanco ) 0537

Web links

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