Municipio Casas Grandes

Casas Grandes
Symbols
	coat of arms
	coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Seat	Casas Grandes
surface	3,759.2 km²
Residents	10,587 (2010)
density	2.82 inhabitants per km²
founding	1820
INEGI no.	08013
politics
Presidente municipal	Yesenia Guadalupe Reyes Calzadías
	The valley of Juan Mata Ortiz

30.2 -108.3Coordinates: 30 ° 12 ′ N , 108 ° 18 ′ W

Casas Grandes is a municipality with around 10,600 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of 3759.2 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Pueblo Mágico Casas Grandes of the same name .

The archaeological sites of Paquimé and Cueva de la Olla are located in the municipality .

geography

The municipality of Casas Grandes is located in the northwest of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1300 m and 2700 m . 64% of the municipality belong to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental , the rest to the Sierras y Llanuras del Norte . It is 85% in the endorheic basin of the Cuencas Cerradas del Norte (Casas Grandes) , 15% belong to the hydrographic region of Sonora Sur and drain into the Gulf of California . The geology of the municipality is determined by 38% rhyolite tuff with 28% basalt , 16% alluvion and 14% conglomerate rock ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are the Leptosol (54%), Phaeozem (22%), Regosol (8%) and Vertisol (6%). 62% of the community area is forested, 24% is used as pasture land, 6% is used for arable farming, and 5% is taken up by the undergrowth.

The municipality is surrounded by the Municipios Janos , Nuevo Casas Grandes , Galeana , Ignacio Zaragoza and Madera and also borders the state of Sonora .

population

In the 2010 census, 10,587 people in 3097 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 64 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . About four percent of the population was illiterate. 3927 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of whom over 77% were men or 4.8% were unemployed. 7.8% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Casas Grandes comprises 149 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 11 towns had a population of over 100. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Casas Grandes	5256
Juan Mata Ortíz ( Pearson )	1182
Colonia Juarez	1035
Sección Enríquez	0609

Web links

Commons : Municipio Casas Grandes - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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