Municipio Batopilas
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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 |
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 | 831 |
Polanco ( Ranchería Mineral Polanco ) | 537 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Batopilas (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Batopilas (Spanish; PDF)