Municipio Carichí

Carichí
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Seat	Carichí
surface	2,594.7 km²
Residents	8795 (2010)
density	3.39 inhabitants per km²
founding	1820
INEGI no.	08012
politics
Presidente municipal	Santos Cordero Rodelas
	Landscape in the municipality

27.9 -107.1Coordinates: 27 ° 54 ' N , 107 ° 6' W

Carichí is a municipality with about 8800 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of 2594.7 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Carichí of the same name .

geography

The municipality of Carichí is located southwest of the center of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1600 m and 3000 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental and is 92.6% in the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos , which drains into the Gulf of Mexico , 5.7% are in the endorheic basin of the Cuencas Cerradas del Norte (Casas Grandes ) , 1.7% belong to the Sonora Sur hydrographic region and drain into the Gulf of California . The geology of the Municipalities is 74% of rhyolithischem Tuff determined at 13% sandstone - conglomerate and 8% basalt ; The dominant soil types in the municipality are Leptosol (38%), Luvisol (28%), Phaeozem (18%) and Regosol (8%). 79% of the community area is forested, 13% is used for arable farming, 8% is used as pasture land.

The municipality is surrounded by the municipality of San Francisco de Borja , Cusihuiriachi , Guerrero , Bocoyna , Nonoava and Guachochi .

population

The 2010 census counted 8,795 people in 2,073 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 4240 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 3979 speakers of the Tarahumara language . A good 39% of the population were illiterate. 3008 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 86% were men or 4.75% were unemployed. 33% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Carichí comprises 209 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 20 towns had a population of over 100. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Carichí	1672
Ciénega de Ojos Azules	0705
Tajirachi	0391
Ocórare de Baqueachi	0208

Web links

Commons : Municipio Carichí - collection of images, videos and audio files

Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Carichí (Spanish)
INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Carichí (Spanish; PDF)