Municipio Guazapares
Guazapares | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chihuahua |
Seat | Témoris |
surface | 1,825.9 km² |
Residents | 8998 (2010) |
density | 4.93 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1826 |
INEGI no. | 08030 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Joel Guillermo Bustillos Ramírez |
The Sierra Madre Occidental in the south of the Municipios Guazapares |
Coordinates: 27 ° 16 ′ N , 108 ° 17 ′ W
Guazapares is a municipality with about 9,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of 1825.9 km². The largest place in the municipality and since 1964 the administrative seat is Témoris .
geography
The municipality of Guazapares is located in the southwest of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 200 m and 2800 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental and is located in the hydrological region Sinaloa and drains over the Río Fuerte into the Pacific . The geology of the municipality is determined by 93% rhyolite tuff with 4% limestone and 3% basalt ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are the Regosol (46%), Phaeozem (35%) and Leptosol (15%). About 78% of the municipality are forested, 20% are used as pasture land.
The municipality borders the Municipios Urique , Maguarichi , Uruachi and Chínipas as well as the state of Sinaloa .
population
In the 2010 census, 8,998 people were counted in 2103 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 2,605 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 2,425 speakers of the Tarahumara language . 18 percent of the population were illiterate. 3149 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 81% were men and 2% were unemployed. A good 40 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Guazapares comprises 342 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 200. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Témoris | 2053 |
Santa Matilde | 261 |
Aremoibo | 252 |
Guazapares | 187 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Guazapares (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Guazapares (Spanish; PDF)