Municipio Camargo (Chihuahua)

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Camargo
location
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat Santa Rosalía de Camargo
surface 13,767.9 km²
Residents 48,748 (2010)
density 3.54 inhabitants per km²
founding 1820
INEGI no. 08011
politics
Presidente municipal Arturo Zubia Fernández
The Faro de las Estrellas in Santa Rosalía de Camargo
The Faro de las Estrellas in Santa Rosalía de Camargo

Coordinates: 28 ° 0 ′  N , 104 ° 24 ′  W

Camargo is a municipality with almost 50,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​13,767.9 km². The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is Santa Rosalía de Camargo .

geography

The municipality of Camargo is located in the east of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1200  m and 2400  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of Sierras y Llanuras del Norte and is 87% in the endorheic basin of the Bolsón de Mapimí , 13% of the municipal area belongs to the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos and drains into the Gulf of Mexico . The geology of the municipality is determined by 56% alluvion with 16% rhyolite tuff , 15% basalt and 7% conglomerate rock ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are Calcisol (47%), Leptosol (25%), Vertisol (6.5%) and Luvisol (6%). Over 62% of the community area is covered by brushwood, 34% is taken up by pastureland.

The municipality is surrounded by the municipalities Julimes , Ojinaga , Manuel Benavides , Jiménez , Allende , San Francisco de Conchos , La Cruz and Saucillo and also borders the state of Coahuila .

population

In the 2010 census, 48,748 people in 13,516 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 654 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 450 speakers of the Tarahumara language . A good three percent of the population was illiterate. 19,292 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which almost 70% were men and 5.7% were unemployed. 4% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Camargo comprises 305 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 22 towns had a population of over 100. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Santa Rosalía de Camargo 40.221
Alta Vista 00.971
La Perla 00.943
El Tecuán 00.597
San Ignacio 00.567

Web links

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