Municipio Guachochi

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Guachochi
location
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat Guachochi
surface 6,984.1 km²
Residents 49,689 (2010)
density 7.11 inhabitants per km²
founding 1963
INEGI no. 08027
politics
Presidente municipal Hugo Aguirre García
Landscape not far from the city of Guachochi
Landscape not far from the city of Guachochi

Coordinates: 26 ° 40 ′  N , 107 ° 40 ′  W

Guachochi is a municipality with around 50,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​6984.1 km². The administrative seat and largest place in the municipality is Guachochi of the same name .

geography

The municipality of Guachochi is located in the southwest of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 400  m and 2800  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental . 83.9% of the municipality is located in the hydrological region of Sinaloa and thus drains into the Gulf of California , the rest belongs to the Bravo - Conchos region and drains into the Gulf of Mexico . The geology of the municipality is 91% rhyolite tuff with 7% basalt ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are the Regosol (29%), Leptosol (25%), Luvisol (22%) and Phaeozem (11%). A good 85% of the municipality is forested, 8% is used for agriculture, 6% is used for pasture land.

The municipality is surrounded by the municipalities Nonoava , Carichí , Bocoyna , Urique , Guadalupe y Calvo , Balleza , Batopilas and Morelos .

population

The 2010 census counted 49,689 people in 11,385 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 27,967 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 25,960 speakers of the Tarahumara language . 25 percent of the population were illiterate. 17,753 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 77% were men or 2.75% were unemployed. 52 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Guachochi includes 1072 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, six towns had a population of over 500. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Guachochi 14,513
Samachique 01,241
Norogachi 00.900
Rocheachi 00.685
Bajío de las Palmas 00.601

Web links

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