Municipio Cosío
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Country | Mexico | |
State | Aguascalientes | |
Seat | Cosío | |
surface | 130.1 km² | |
Residents | 15,042 (2010) | |
density | 115.6 inhabitants per km² | |
INEGI no. | 01004 | |
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Presidente municipal | Juan Manuel Villalpando Adame |
Coordinates: 22 ° 22 ′ N , 102 ° 18 ′ W
Cosío is the name of the smallest of the eleven municipalities in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes . The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Cosío . The municipality has 15,042 inhabitants (2010) and covers an area of 130.1 km².
geography
The Municipio Cosío is located in the extreme north of the state of Aguascalientes at an altitude between 1900 m and 2400 m . About 70% of the community area belong to the physiographic province of the Mesa del Centro , the rest to the Sierra Madre Occidental . The municipality is located in the catchment area of the Río Lerma and thus drains into the Pacific . The geology of the municipality is composed of 67% alluvion , 30% rhyolite tuff and 1% conglomerate ; Soil type of 57% of the municipality is the Durisol with 22% Leptosol and 15% Regosol . Over 70% of the area of the municipality is used for agriculture, a good quarter as pastureland.
The Municipio Cosío borders the Municipio Rincón de Romos and the State of Zacatecas .
population
The 2010 census counted 15,042 people in 3,465 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 17 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . About 4.3% of the population were illiterate. 4,819 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 76% were men and approx. 8.5% were unemployed. 4.8% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Cosío comprises 54 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Five places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, another eight places had at least 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Cosío | 4898 |
La Punta | 2416 |
El Refugio de Providencia ( Providencia ) | 1377 |
El Salero | 1229 |
Santa Maria de la Paz | 1026 |
El Refugio de Agua Zarca | 894 |
Soledad de Arriba | 783 |
Soledad de Abajo ( Estación de Adames ) | 770 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Cosío (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Cosío (Spanish; PDF)