Municipio Jiménez (Chihuahua)

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Jiménez
location
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coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat José Mariano Jiménez
surface 10,789.6 km²
Residents 41,265 (2010)
density 3.82 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 08036
politics
Presidente municipal Marco Chavez Torres
Landscape in the municipality of Jiménez
Landscape in the municipality of Jiménez

Coordinates: 27 ° 0 ′  N , 104 ° 24 ′  W

Jiménez is a municipality with around 41,000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​10,789.6 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is José Mariano Jiménez .

The municipality is named after José Mariano Jiménez , an insurgent in the Mexican War of Independence .

geography

The municipality of Jiménez is located in the southeast of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1000  m and 2300  m . More than 99% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Sierras y Llanuras del Norte ; 81% of the municipality lies in the hydrological region of the endorheic basin of the Bolsón de Mapimí , 19%, however, in the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos and drains into the Gulf of Mexico . The geology of the municipality is determined to 61% by alluvion with 16% limestone , 10% conglomerate rock and 3% basalt ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are Calcisol (50%), Leptosol (28%), Regosol (5%) and Vertisol (4%). About three quarters of the municipality is taken up by the scrub landscape, 15% are used as pasture land, 5% are used for arable farming.

The municipality borders on the municipalities Camargo , Coronado , López and Casas Grandes as well as on the states of Coahuila and Durango .

population

The 2010 census counted 41,265 people in 10,904 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 420 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 277 speakers of the Tarahumara language . 4.5 percent of the population was illiterate. 16,004 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 70% were men and 6.8% were unemployed. 3.5 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Jiménez comprises 293 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, eleven towns had a population of over 200. The biggest places are:

place Residents
José Mariano Jiménez 34,281
Escalón 00.697
Torreoncitos 00.444

Web links

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