Municipio Guadalupe (Chihuahua)

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Guadalupe
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat Guadalupe
surface 6001 km²
Residents 6458 (2010)
density 1.08 inhabitants per km²
founding February 15, 1859
INEGI no. 08028
politics
Presidente municipal Jaime Guerrero Guadián
The Presidencia Municipal in Guadalupe
The Presidencia Municipal in Guadalupe

Coordinates: 30 ° 53 ′  N , 105 ° 35 ′  W

Guadalupe is a municipality with about 6500 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​6001 km². The administrative seat and largest place in the municipality is Guadalupe of the same name .

geography

The municipality of Guadalupe is located in the north of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 900  m and 2200  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierras y Llanuras del Norte . 67% of the municipality lies in the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos and drains into the Gulf of Mexico , the rest lies in the endorheic basin of the Cuencas Cerradas del Norte (Casas Grandes) . The geology of the municipality is determined to 41% by alluvions with 21% conglomerate rock and 17% limestone ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are Calcisol (41%), Leptosol (31%) and Regosol (18%). A good 87% of the municipality is covered by undergrowth, 4% serve as pastureland. Part of the Médanos de Samalayuca is located in the municipality .

The municipality is surrounded by the municipalities Juárez , Práxedis G. Guerrero , Ojinaga , Coyame del Sotol and Ahumada and also borders the US state of Texas .

population

The 2010 census counted 6,458 people in 1,734 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 22 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . 4.6 percent of the population were illiterate. 2102 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which around 75% were men and 5.8% were unemployed. 8.4 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Guadalupe comprises 101 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, five towns had a population of over 500. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Guadalupe 3022
Doctor Porfirio Parra ( La Caseta ) 0956
Juarez y Reforma 0788

Web links

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