Municipio Pabellón de Arteaga
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Aguascalientes | |
| Seat | Pabellón de Arteaga | |
| surface | 198.4 km² | |
| Residents | 41,862 (2010) | |
| density | 211 inhabitants per km² | |
| INEGI no. | 01006 | |
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| Presidente municipal | Cuauhtémoc Escobedo Tejada | |
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Coordinates: 22 ° 7 ′ N , 102 ° 17 ′ W
Pabellón de Arteaga is the name of one of the eleven municipalities in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes . The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is the Pabellón de Arteaga of the same name . The municipality has 41,862 inhabitants (2010) and covers an area of 198.4 km².
geography
The municipality of Pabellón de Arteaga is centrally located in the state of Aguascalientes at an altitude between 1800 m and 2300 m . Three quarters of it belong to the physiographic province of the Mesa del Centro , the rest to the Sierra Madre Occidental . The municipality is located in the catchment area of the Río Lerma and thus drains into the Pacific . The geology of the municipality is composed of 63% alluvion , 29% rhyolite tuff and 5% sedimentary rock ; Soil type of 55% of the municipality is the Durisol with 27% Leptosol and 12% Phaeozem . Two thirds of the community area is used for arable farming, 14% is covered by shrubland and around 11% is forested.
The Municipio Pabellón de Arteaga borders the Municipios Rincón de Romos , Tepezalá , Asientos , San Francisco de los Romo , Jesús María and San José de Gracia .
population
In the 2010 census, 41,862 people in 9,392 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 76 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 14 speakers of the Nahuatl . About four percent of the population was illiterate. 14,892 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 68% were men and approx. 8.3% were unemployed. About 4.1% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Pabellón de Arteaga comprises 186 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Emiliano Zapata are classified as urban by the INEGI . Six towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, another 14 towns had at least 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
| place | Residents |
| Pabellón de Arteaga | 28,633 |
| Emiliano Zapata | 2,995 |
| Las Ánimas | 1,794 |
| Santa Isabel (Fraccionamiento) | 1,065 |
| Santiago | 1,020 |
| San Luis de Letras | 1,018 |
| Ojo Zarco (Colonia) | 607 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Pabellón de Arteaga (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Pabellón de Arteaga (Spanish; PDF)
