Municipio López

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López
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat Octaviano Lopez
surface 1,350.3 km²
Residents 4025 (2010)
density 2.98 inhabitants per km²
founding June 17, 1857
INEGI no. 08039
politics
Presidente municipal Óscar Manuel Galvan Neri
Portal at the entrance to Villa López
Portal at the entrance to Villa López

Coordinates: 26 ° 56 ′  N , 105 ° 0 ′  W

López is a municipality with around 4000 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​1350.3 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is Villa López (officially Octaviano López ).

geography

The Municipio López is located in the southeast of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 1400  m and 2000  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierras y Llanuras del Norte . 99.9% of the municipality is in the hydrological region Bravo - Conchos and drains into the Gulf of Mexico , the rest in the endorheic basin of the Bolsón de Mapimí . The geology of the municipality is determined to 81% by alluvions with 8% conglomerate rock and 4% rhyolite tuff ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are Calcisol (48%), Kastanozem (20%), Leptosol (9%), Phaeozem (8%) and Vertisol (6%). 71% of the municipality is covered by scrub landscape, 15% are used as pastureland, 12% are used for arable farming.

The municipality borders on the municipalities Allende , Jiménez and Coronado .

population

The 2010 census counted 4025 people in 1184 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 18 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 13 speakers of the Tarahumara language . 4.6 percent of the population were illiterate. 1565 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 80% were men and 4.1% were unemployed. 3.9 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio López comprises 45 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, five towns had a population of over 100. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Octaviano Lopez 2148
Santa María 0602
Saláices 0487

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