Municipio Hidalgo del Parral

Hidalgo del Parral
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Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Seat	Hidalgo del Parral
surface	1,926.9 km²
Residents	107,061 (2010)
density	55.6 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no.	08032
politics
Presidente municipal	Jorge Alfredo Lozoya Santillán
	View of the town of Hidalgo del Parral

27.033333333333 -105.68333333333Coordinates: 27 ° 2 ′ N , 105 ° 41 ′ W

Hidalgo del Parral is a municipality with a good 107,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of 1926.9 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Hidalgo del Parral of the same name .

geography

The municipality of Hidalgo del Parral is located in the south of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1300 m and 2400 m . 64% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Sierras y Llanuras del Norte , the rest belongs to the Sierra Madre Occidental . The municipality lies entirely in the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos and thus drains into the Gulf of Mexico . The geology of the municipality is determined by 29% conglomerate rock with 26% rhyolite tuff , 23% limestone - lutite and 7% each of limestone-lutite- sandstone and alluvion ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are Calcisol (39%), Phaeozem and Leptosol (each 24%). About 82% of the municipality is used as pasture land, about 6% each is taken up by forest or by scrub landscape, 4% are used for arable farming.

The municipality borders on the municipality of Valle de Zaragoza , Allende , Matamoros , Santa Bárbara , San Francisco del Oro and Huejotitán .

population

The 2010 census counted 107,061 people in 28,799 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 896 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 635 speakers of the Tarahumara language . 2.4 percent of the population were illiterate. 42,751 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 66% were men and 4.8% were unemployed. 2.1 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Hidalgo del Parral comprises 119 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, seven towns had a population of over 100. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Hidalgo del Parral	104,836
Comunidad San Andrés	000.245
no name ( CERESO )	000.229

Web links

Commons : Municipio Hidalgo del Parral - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Hidalgo del Parral (Spanish)
INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Hidalgo del Parral (Spanish; PDF)