Municipio Ocampo (Tamaulipas)
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Country | Mexico | |
State | Tamaulipas | |
Seat | Ocampo | |
surface | 1,480.8 km² | |
Residents | 12,962 (2010) | |
density | 8.75 inhabitants per km² | |
INEGI no. | 28029 |
Coordinates: 22 ° 50 ′ N , 99 ° 20 ′ W
Ocampo is a municipality in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas . The municipality covers an area of 1480.8 km² and, according to the 2010 census, has a population of 12,962. The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is Ocampo of the same name .
geography
The municipality of Ocampo is located in the southwest of the state of Tamaulipas at an altitude between 50 m and 1800 m . Almost all of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Oriental , only 0.1% of the area is counted to the coastal plains of the northern Gulf. The municipality lies entirely in the catchment area of the Río Pánuco . The geology of the municipality consists of about 40% limestone , 22% lutite , 18% basalt and 11% alluvion , the soil type of over 59% of the municipality is the leptosol with 25% vertisol . More than 70% of the community area is forested, around 25% are used for agriculture.
The municipality of Ocampo borders the municipalities of Tula , Palmillas , Jaumave , Gómez Farías , El Mante , Antiguo Morelos and Nuevo Morelos as well as the state of San Luis Potosí .
population
In the 2010 census, 12,962 people were counted in 3,687 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 36 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 11 speakers of Huasteco . 8.5% of the population was illiterate. 4,333 residents were registered as economically active, of which approx. 84% were men and 2.6% were unemployed. Over eleven percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Altamira comprises 142 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, twelve towns had a population of over 200. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Ocampo | 5095 |
Adolfo López Mateos ( Chamal Nuevo ) | 899 |
El Pensil | 801 |
Ricardo Flores Magón | 793 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Ocampo (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Ocampo (Spanish; PDF)