Municipio El Tule
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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
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio El Tule (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio El Tule (Spanish; PDF)