Municipio Juárez (Chihuahua)

Juarez
Symbols
	coat of arms
	coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Seat	Ciudad Juarez
surface	3,550.4 km²
Residents	1,332,131 (2010)
density	375.2 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no.	08037
politics
Presidente municipal	Héctor Armando Cabada Alvídrez
	Look at Ciudad Juarez with the hinterland of El Paso from

31.4 -106.6Coordinates: 31 ° 24 ′ N , 106 ° 36 ′ W

Juárez is a municipality with a good 1.3 million inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of 3550 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the metropolis Ciudad Juárez .

The municipality is named after Benito Juárez , a Mexican president.

geography

The Municipio Juárez is located in the extreme north of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1000 m and 1900 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierras y Llanuras del Norte ; 74% of the municipality are in the hydrological region of the endorheic basin of the Cuencas Cerradas del Norte (Casas Grandes) , while 26% are in the hydrological region of Bravo - Conchos and drain into the Gulf of Mexico . The geology of the municipality is determined to 70% by aeolian sediments with 11% alluvions ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are the Arenosol (42%), Regosol (19%), Calcisol (13%) and Solonetz (10%). 82% of the municipality is taken up by scrub landscape.

Part of the Médanos de Samalayuca is located in the municipality . The municipality borders on the municipalities of Ascensión , Guadalupe and Ahumada as well as on the US states of Texas and New Mexico .

population

In the 2010 census, 1,332,131 people in 342,928 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 6,680 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . 1.9 percent of the population were illiterate. 530,465 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 65% were men and 6.4% were unemployed. 4.8 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Juárez comprises 101 inhabited localidades , of which, in addition to the capital, San Isidro 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
Ciudad Juarez	1,321,004
San Isidro ( Río Grande )	0.003,483
Loma Blanca	0.002,169
Samalayuca	0.001,474
San Agustin	0.001,359
El Millón	0,000.727

Web links

Commons : Municipio Juárez - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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