Municipio Guerrero (Coahuila)

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Guerrero
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Coahuila
Seat Guerrero
surface 2,931.1 km²
Residents 2091 (2010)
density 0.71 inhabitants per km²
Website www.guerrerocoah.gob.mx/
INEGI no. 05012

Coordinates: 28 ° 19 ′  N , 100 ° 23 ′  W

The Municipio Guerrero is a municipality in the Mexican state of Coahuila . In 2010 the municipality had a population of 2,091 inhabitants; its area amounts to 2931.1 km². The administrative center of the municipality as well as its largest town is the Guerrero of the same name .

geography

The municipality of Guerrero is located in the northeast of the state of Coahuila at an altitude between 100  m and 600  m . 95% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Great Plains and 5% to the Sierra Madre Oriental . The entire municipal area lies in the catchment area of ​​the Río Bravo del Norte and thus drains into the Gulf of Mexico . The geology of the municipality is composed of 57% alluvion and 42% sedimentary rock ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are calcisol (49%) and vertisol (15%). Almost three quarters of the municipality are taken up by scrub landscape, around 15% are used for agriculture, 10% as pasture land.

The municipality of Guerrero is bordered by the municipalities of Nava , Hidalgo , Juárez and Villa Unión, as well as the state of Texas of the United States of America .

population

The 2010 census counted 2,091 people in 576 residential units in the municipality. Of these, nine people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , five of them speakers of Huasteki . About 7.7% of the population were illiterate. 705 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which around 80% were men and around 1.8% were unemployed. 4.4% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Guerrero comprises 91 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 50:

place Residents
Guerrero 959
Santa Mónica 324
Guadalupe 168

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