Municipio Coronado

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Coronado
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat José Esteban Coronado
surface 1,893.5 km²
Residents 2284 (2010)
density 1.21 inhabitants per km²
founding 1860
INEGI no. 08014
politics
Presidente municipal Refugio Soto Terrazas
The ex-Hacienda Marteleño from the 17th century in the Municipio Coronado
The ex-Hacienda Marteleño from the 17th century in the Municipio Coronado

Coordinates: 26 ° 39 ′  N , 105 ° 4 ′  W

Coronado is a municipality with around 2,300 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​1893.5 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is José Esteban Coronado .

geography

The Municipio Coronado is located in the southeast of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1200  m and 2400  m . The municipality belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierras y Llanuras del Norte and is 87% in the endorheic basin of the Bolsón de Mapimí , 13% are in the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos and drain into the Gulf of Mexico . The geology of the municipality is determined by 56% alluvion with 16% rhyolite tuff , 15% basalt and 7% conglomerate rock ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are Calcisol (47%), Leptosol (25%), Vertisol (7%), Luvisol (6%) and Regosol (5%). 63% of the community area is taken up by scrub landscape, 34% is used as pastureland.

The municipality borders on the municipalities of Matamoros , Allende , López and Jiménez as well as the state of Durango .

population

In the 2010 census, 2284 people in 675 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 14 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 12 speakers of the Tarahumara language . About 5 percent of the population was illiterate. 920 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which almost 80% were men and 3.8% were unemployed. 4.25 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Coronado comprises 36 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, seven towns had a population of over 100. The largest town and only one with over 300 inhabitants is José Esteban Coronado (1121 inhabitants).

Web links

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