Municipio Dr. Belisario Domínguez

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Dr. Belisario Domínguez
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat San Lorenzo
surface 1,034.7 km²
Residents 2911 (2010)
density 2.81 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 08022
politics
Presidente municipal Arón Loya Jáquez

Coordinates: 28 ° 9 ′  N , 106 ° 30 ′  W

Dr. Belisario Domínguez , also Doctor Belisario Domínguez , is a municipality with about 3000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​1034.7 km². The administrative seat of the municipality is San Lorenzo , while the largest place in the municipality is Tutuaca .

The municipality is named after the politician Belisario Domínguez Palencia .

geography

The Municipio Dr. Belisario Domínguez is located in the center of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1400  m and 2400  m . The municipality lies entirely in the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental and lies entirely in the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos and drains into the Gulf of Mexico . The geology of the municipality is 42% rhyolitic tuff with 29% conglomerate rock and 16% sandstone conglomerate; The dominant soil types in the municipality are Leptosol (39%), Phaeozem (26%), Cambisol (12%), Luvisol (8%) and Regosol (7%). A good 60% of the community area is used as pasture land, 22% as arable land, and 17% is forested.

The municipality borders on the municipalities Cusihuiriachi , Gran Morelos , Santa Isabel , Satevó and San Francisco de Borja .

population

In the 2010 census, 2911 people in 1013 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 69 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 64 speakers of the Tarahumara language . Seven percent of the population was illiterate. 903 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 85% were men and 0.9% were unemployed. 2.7 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Delicias comprises 21 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Four towns had a population of over 200 in the 2010 census, 14 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Tutuaca ( Santa Bárbara de Tutuaca ) 841
San Lorenzo 441
Santa María de Cuevas 393
Santa Rosalía de Cuevas 316

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