Municipio Cananea

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Cananea
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Sonora
Seat Heroica Ciudad de Cananea
surface 2,318.3 km²
Residents 32,936 (2010)
density 14.2 inhabitants per km²
founding November 8, 1901error
Website cananea.sonora.gob.mx/
INEGI no. 26019
Cananea around 1908
Cananea around 1908

Coordinates: 30 ° 57 ′  N , 110 ° 18 ′  W

The Municipio Cananea is an administrative unit in the northwest of the Mexican state of Sonora . The administrative seat and by far the largest town is Heroica Ciudad de Cananea . According to the 2010 census, the municipality has 32,936 inhabitants, the municipality area amounts to 2318.3 km².

geography

The municipality Cananea lies at an altitude between 800  m and 2600  m and is 69% part of the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental and 31% of the sierras and plains of the north.

The municipality borders on the municipalities Arizpe , Naco , Bacoachi , Imuris , Santa Cruz and Fronteras . The area is 4141.1 km².

Population development

  • 1980: 25,327
  • 1990: 26,931
  • 2000: 32.061
  • 2010: 32,936

places

According to the 2010 census, the municipality comprises 81 inhabited localidades , but over 95% of the population is concentrated in the main town of Heroica Ciudad de Cananea. Three other places have at least 200 inhabitants: Cuitaca , Ignacio Zaragoza and Vicente Guerrero .

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