Municipio Cuauhtémoc (Chihuahua)

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Cuauhtémoc
location
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat Cuauhtémoc
surface 3,613.2 km²
Residents 154,639 (2010)
density 42.8 inhabitants per km²
founding 1927
INEGI no. 08017
politics
Presidente municipal Carlos Tena Nevarez
View of the city of Cuauhtémoc
View of the city of Cuauhtémoc

Coordinates: 28 ° 46 ′  N , 106 ° 56 ′  W

Cuauhtémoc is a municipality with about 155,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​3613.2 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is Cuauhtémoc .

geography

The municipality of Cuauhtémoc is located in the center of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1800  m and 2900  m . 97% of the municipality belong to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental . 92% of it is in the endorheic basin of the Cuencas Cerradas del Norte (Casas Grandes) , a good 4% is in the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos and drains into the Gulf of Mexico , the remaining almost 4% is in the Sonora Sur region and drains in the Gulf of California . The geology of the municipality is determined by 41% conglomerate rock with 29% rhyolite tuff , 17% basalt and 7% alluvion ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are Leptosol (25%), Luvisol (21%), Phaeozem (19%), Regosol and Vertisol (each just under 11%). 43% of the community area is used for arable farming, 34% is forested, 17% is used as pasture land.

The municipality borders on the Municipios Namiquipa , Riva Palacio , Santa Isabel , Gran Morelos , Cusihuiriachi , Guerrero and Bachíniva .

population

In the 2010 census, 154,639 people in 42,356 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 2,284 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 1,837 speakers of the Tarahumara language . 2.3 percent of the population were illiterate. 61,586 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 68.5% were men and 3.3% were unemployed. 5.1 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality Cuauhtémoc comprises 396 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Colonia Anáhuac are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, eleven towns had a population of over 500, while 300 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Cuauhtémoc 114.007
Colonia Anahuac 009,952
Colonia Obregón ( Rubio ) 002,241
La Quemada 001,272
Lázaro Cárdenas 000.861

Web links

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