Municipio López
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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 |
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 | 602 |
Saláices | 487 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio López (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio López (Spanish; PDF)