Municipio Bocoyna
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chihuahua |
Seat | Bocoyna |
surface | 2,710.2 km² |
Residents | 28,766 (2010) |
density | 10.6 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1911 |
INEGI no. | 08009 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Héctor Edgardo Rochín González |
Landscape near Creel |
Coordinates: 27 ° 48 ′ N , 107 ° 36 ′ W
Bocoyna is a municipality with a good 14,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of 2710.2 km². The administrative seat is the eponymous Bocoyna , the largest place in the municipality, however, is San Juanito , the second largest place is the Pueblo Mágico Creel .
geography
The Municipio Bocoyna is located in the southwest of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1000 m and 2900 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental . 59% of the municipality are in the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos and drain into the Gulf of Mexico , 37% belong to the hydrological region Sinaloa and drain over the Río Fuerte into the Gulf of California , the rest belong to the hydrological region Sonora Sur and drain over the Río Yaqui also in the gold of California. The geology of the municipality is 88% determined by rhyolite tuff with 7% andesite ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are the Regosol (42%), Luvisol (29%), Leptosol and Phaeozem (11% each). 83% of the municipality is forested, 16% is used for arable farming.
The municipality is surrounded by the municipalities Carichí , Ocampo , Guerrero , Maguarichi , Guachochi and Urique .
population
The 2010 census counted 28,766 people in 7852 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 5,773 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 5,454 speakers of the Tarahumara language . About 14% of the population were illiterate. 10,446 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 73.5% were men and 3% were unemployed. 17.7% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Bocoyna comprises 508 inhabited localidades , of which, in addition to the main town, San Juanito and Creel are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 24 towns had a population of over 100. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
San Juanito | 10,535 |
Creel | 5,026 |
Sisoguichi | 1,097 |
Bocoyna | 796 |
Soyahuachi | 377 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Bocoyna (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Bocoyna (Spanish; PDF)