Municipio Guadalupe y Calvo

Guadalupe y Calvo
Symbols
	coat of arms
	coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Seat	Guadalupe y Calvo
surface	9,649.9 km²
Residents	53,499 (2010)
density	5.54 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no.	08029
politics
Presidente municipal	Noel Chavez Velazquez
	The Arroyo del Soldado in the municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo

26.083333333333 -107Coordinates: 26 ° 5 ′ N , 107 ° 0 ′ W

Guadalupe y Calvo is a municipality with around 53,500 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of 9649.9 km². The administrative seat and largest town in the municipality is Guadalupe y Calvo of the same name .

Guadalupe y Calvo is named after the Virgin of Guadalupe and José Joaquín Calvo , a former governor of Chihuahua.

geography

The municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo is located in the extreme south of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 200 m and 3300 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental and is located in the hydrological region of Sinaloa and drains into the Pacific . The geology of the municipality is determined to 87% by rhyolite tuff with 5% andesite - breccia ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are Leptosol (35%), Regosol (25%), Luvisol (15%), Phaeozem (12%) and Cambisol (10%). About 89% of the municipality is forested, 7% is used for arable farming, 4% is used as pasture land.

The municipality borders on the Municipios Balleza , Morelos and Guachochi as well as the states of Sinaloa and Durango .

population

In the 2010 census, 53,499 people were counted in 11,476 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 14,341 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 7,445 speakers of the Tepehuano de Chihuahua and 5,833 speakers of the Tarahumara language . 21 percent of the population were illiterate. 16,979 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 87% were men and 2% were unemployed. 47 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo includes 1001 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Baborigame are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, eight towns had a population of over 500. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Guadalupe y Calvo	5816
Baborigame	3294
Atascaderos	1559
Las Yerbitas	1200
Turuachi	1131

Web links

Commons : Guadalupe y Calvo Municipality - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Guadalupe y Calvo (Spanish)
INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Guadalupe y Calvo (Spanish; PDF)