Municipio El Tule

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El Tule
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat El Tule
surface 470.5 km²
Residents 1869 (2010)
density 3.97 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 08064
politics
Presidente municipal Javier Rodríguez Chávez

Coordinates: 27 ° 3 ′  N , 106 ° 16 ′  W

El Tule is a municipality with a good 1800 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​470.5 km². The administrative seat and largest place in the municipality is El Tule .

geography

The municipality of El Tule is located in the south of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1500  m and 2400  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental . The parish area lies entirely in the hydrological region of Bravo - Conchos and drains into the Gulf of Mexico . About 43% of the geology of the municipality is determined by rhyolite tuff with 35% conglomerate rock and almost 8% each andesite and sandstone conglomerate; The predominant soil types in the municipality are the Phaeozem (37%), Chernozem (25%) and Leptosol (21%). 74% of the municipality is taken up by pastureland, 13% is used for agriculture, 12% is forested.

The municipality is surrounded by the municipality of Rosario , Huejotitán , San Francisco del Oro and Balleza .

population

In the 2010 census, 1869 people were counted in 552 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 93 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 73 speakers of the Tarahumara language . Almost eleven percent of the population were illiterate. 582 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 84% were men and approx. 11.7% were unemployed. 7.9% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio El Tule comprises 28 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three towns had a population of over 100. The largest towns are El Tule (811 inhabitants) and Vaqueteros ( San José de Vaqueteros , 440 inhabitants).

Web links

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