Municipio Chínipas
Chinipas | |
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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 ) | 581 |
Palmarejo | 425 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Chínipas (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Chínipas (Spanish; PDF)