Municipio Buenaventura

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Buenaventura
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat San Buenaventura
surface 7,920.8 km²
Residents 22,378 (2010)
density 2.83 inhabitants per km²
founding 1820
INEGI no. 08010
politics
Presidente municipal Miriam Caballero Arras
Center of San Buenaventura
Center of San Buenaventura

Coordinates: 30 ° 0 ′  N , 107 ° 9 ′  W

Buenaventura is a municipality with a good 22,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​7920.8 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is San Buenaventura .

geography

The municipality of Buenaventura is located in the north of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1100  m and 2900  m . 74% of it belongs to the physiographic province of Sierras y Llanuras del Norte and 26% to the Sierra Madre Occidental . The municipality lies entirely in the endorheic hydrological region of Cuencas Cerradas del Norte . The geology of the municipality is determined by 40% alluvions with 27% conglomerate rock and 20% rhyolite tuff ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are Leptosol (36%), Calcisol (22%), Regosol (14%) and Cambisol (8%). 47% of the community area is taken up by pastureland, 32% is covered by undergrowth, 10% is forested, 5% is used for arable farming.

The municipality is surrounded by the municipality of Ascensión , Ahumada , Chihuahua , Namiquipa , Ignacio Zaragoza , Galeana and Nuevo Casas Grandes .

population

The 2010 census counted 22,378 people in 6148 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 855 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 642 speakers of Mixtec . A good 5% of the population was illiterate. 8,572 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 73.5% were men and 3% were unemployed. 7.6% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Buenaventura comprises 53 inhabited localidades , of which, in addition to the main town, Ejido Benito Juárez, Constitución and Flores Magón are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 13 towns had a population of over 100. The biggest places are:

place Residents
San Buenaventura 6957
Ejido Benito Juarez 5778
Constitución 2709
Flores Magón 2510
Rodrigo M. Quevedo 1367
San Lorenzo 0806
Colonia el Valle 0526

Web links

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