Municipio Pánuco (Zacatecas)

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Pánuco
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Zacatecas
Seat Pánuco
surface 587.6 km²
Residents 16,875 (2010)
density 28.7 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 32037

Coordinates: 22 ° 54 ′  N , 102 ° 33 ′  W

Pánuco is a municipality in the Mexican state of Zacatecas . The municipality covers an area of ​​587.6 km². In 2010, Pánuco had a population of 16,875 people. The administrative seat of the municipality is the Pánuco of the same name , while the largest place in the municipality is Pozo de Gamboa .

geography

The municipality of Pánuco is centrally located in the state of Zacatecas at an altitude between 1900  m and 2600  m . Almost two-thirds of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Mesa del Centro and a good third to the Sierra Madre Occidental . The municipality lies entirely in the endorheic hydrographic region of El Salado . Geologically, the municipality is dominated by alluvial soil (64%) with 18 % porphyry and 9% mica schist . The predominant soil types are Kastanozem with 48% of the municipal area , Calcisol with 24% and Phaeozem with 17% . Almost 70% of the community area is used for arable farming, a good 18% is covered by scrub and around 12% is pasture land.

The Municipio Pánuco borders the Municipios Calera , Fresnillo , Villa de Cos , Guadalupe , Vetagrande and Morelos .

population

In the 2010 census, 16,875 people in 4,177 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 185 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 65 speakers of the Tepehuano and 61 speakers of the Nahuatl . About 6.7% of the population were illiterate. 5,805 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 81% were men and approx. 2.7% were unemployed. About 14.6% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Pánuco comprises 154 inhabited localidades , of which the main town as well as Pozo de Gamboa and San Antonio del Ciprés are classified as urban by the INEGI . Five places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, another nine places had at least 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Pozo de Gamboa 5221
San Antonio del Ciprés 3338
Laguna Seca 1302
Casa de Cerros 1145
Pánuco 1034
San Juan 0808
Los Pozos 0565
Llano Blanco Norte 0562

Web links

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