Municipio Calvillo
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Aguascalientes | |
| Seat | Calvillo | |
| surface | 935.2 km² | |
| Residents | 54,136 (2010) | |
| density | 57.9 inhabitants per km² | |
| Website | calvillo.gob.mx | |
| INEGI no. | 01003 | |
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| Presidente municipal | Adán Valdivia López | |
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Coordinates: 21 ° 53 ′ N , 102 ° 43 ′ W
Calvillo is the name of one of the eleven Municipios of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes . The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Calvillo . The municipality has 54,136 inhabitants (2010) and covers an area of 935.2 km².
geography
The municipality of Calvillo is located in the far west of the state of Aguascalientes at an altitude between 1500 m and 2900 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental . The municipality is located in the catchment area of the Río Lerma and thus drains into the Pacific . The geology of the municipality consists of 77% rhyolite tuff , 20% sedimentary rock and 3% alluvion ; Soil type of 31% of the municipality is the Phaeozem with 26% Leptosol and 18% Regosol . More than 60% of the community area is forested, around 24% are used for arable farming and around 13% as pasture land.
The municipality of Calvillo borders the municipalities of San José de Gracia , Jesús María and Aguascalientes as well as the states of Jalisco and Zacatecas .
population
In the 2010 census, 54,136 people in 12,834 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 98 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 27 speakers of the Huichol language . About 6.2% of the population were illiterate. 19,310 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which around 71% were men and around 9.7% were unemployed. Over seven percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Calvillo comprises 155 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Ojocaliente are classified as urban by the INEGI . Twelve places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, another 22 places had at least 200 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
| place | Residents |
| Calvillo | 19,742 |
| Ojocaliente | 6,914 |
| Valle Huejúcar ( Fraccionamiento Popular ; Fraccionamiento) | 1.991 |
| La laboratory | 1,988 |
| Malpaso | 1,697 |
| San Tadeo | 1,507 |
| Chiquihuitero ( San Isidro ) | 1,318 |
| La Panadera | 1,212 |
| Mesa Grande | 1,149 |
| Yaltiche de Arriba | 1,114 |
| Crucero las Pilas | 1,031 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Calvillo (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Calvillo (Spanish; PDF)
