Municipio Chínipas

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Chinipas
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat Chinipas de Almada
surface 1,993.1 km²
Residents 8441 (2010)
density 4.24 inhabitants per km²
founding 1820
INEGI no. 08020
politics
Presidente municipal Salomé Ramos Salmón

Coordinates: 27 ° 24 ′  N , 108 ° 33 ′  W

Chínipas is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chihuahua with about 8,400 inhabitants . The municipality has an area of ​​1993.1 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is Chínipas de Almada .

geography

The municipality of Chínipas is located in the southwest of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 200  m and 2400  m . The municipality belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental and is 88% in the hydrographic region of Sinaloa and 12% in the region of Sonora Sur . The geology of the Municipalities is 88% of rhyolithischem Tuff determined at 4% limestone , 3% Granodiorit and 2% sandstone - conglomerate ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are the Phaeozem (38%), Leptosol (20%), Cambisol (18%), Regosol (17%) and Luvisol (7%). 89% of the community area is forested, 10% is used as pastureland.

The municipality borders on the municipalities Guazapares and Uruachi as well as on the states of Sonora and Sinaloa .

population

The 2010 census counted 8441 people in 1932 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 982 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 641 speakers of the Tarahumara language and 277 speakers of the Guarijío . About 13.5 percent of the population was illiterate. 2549 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 91% were men and 10% were unemployed. 36 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Chínipas comprises 165 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 14 towns had a population of over 100. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Chinipas de Almada 1934
Milpillas 1025
Ignacio Valenzuela Lagarda ( Loreto ) 0581
Palmarejo 0425

Web links

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