Municipio Janos

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Janos
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat Janos
surface 7,420.5 km²
Residents 10,953 (2010)
density 1.48 inhabitants per km²
founding 1820
INEGI no. 08035
politics
Presidente municipal Sebastián Efraín Pineda Acedo
In the northwest of the Municipios Janos
In the northwest of the Municipios Janos

Coordinates: 30 ° 45 ′  N , 108 ° 27 ′  W

Janos is a municipality with about 11,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​7420.5 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Janos .

geography

The municipality of Janos is located in the northwest of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 500  m and 2200  m . 72% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Sierras y Llanuras del Norte , the rest belongs to the Sierra Madre Occidental . 95.5% of the municipality is in the hydrological region of the endorheic basin of the Cuencas Cerradas del Norte (Casas Grandes) , while 4.5% is in the hydrological region of Sonora Sur and drains via the Río Yaqui into the Gulf of California . The geology of the municipality is determined by 45% alluvions with 32% rhyolite tuff , 11% conglomerate rock and 7% basalt ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are Leptosol (34%), Regosol (21%), Calcisol (12%), Vertisol (10%) and Phaeozem (8.5%). About 44% of the municipality is used as pastureland, 26% is forested, 20% is taken up by the undergrowth, 8% is used for arable farming.

The municipality borders the Municipios Ascensión , Nuevo Casas Grandes and Casas Grandes as well as the Mexican state of Sonora and the US state of New Mexico .

population

In the 2010 census, 10,953 people were counted in 2770 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 807 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 468 speakers of Mixtec and 115 speakers of Nahuatl . Six percent of the population was illiterate. 4,272 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 80% were men and 2.6% were unemployed. 13 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Janos comprises 151 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, ten towns had a population of over 200. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Janos 2738
Monte Verde ( Altamira ) 1087
Fernández Leal 0885
Pancho Villa ( La Morita ) 0812
Tres Álamos 0670

Web links

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