Municipio Pueblo Nuevo (Durango)
Pueblo Nuevo | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Durango |
Seat | El Salto |
surface | 6,960.8 km² |
Residents | 49,162 (2010) |
density | 7.06 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1917 |
Website | pueblonuevo.gob.mx |
INEGI no. | 10023 |
Coordinates: 23 ° 12 ′ N , 105 ° 10 ′ W
Pueblo Nuevo is a municipality in the southwest of the Mexican state Durango . The Municipio Pueblo Nuevo has about 49,000 inhabitants and an area of 6,960.7 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is El Salto .
geography
The municipality of Pueblo Nuevo is located in the south of the state of Durango at an altitude between 100 m and 3400 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental and the hydrological region Presidio-San Pedro . The geology of the municipality is almost exclusively determined by rhyolite tuffs ; Soil type of 58% of the municipality is the Leptosol , followed by 28% Luvisol . About 95% of the community area is forested, 3% is used as pasture.
The municipality of Pueblo Nuevo borders the municipalities of San Dimas , Durango and Mezquital as well as the states of Nayarit and Sinaloa .
population
In the 2010 census, 49,162 people in 10,348 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 3,511 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 3,148 speakers of the Tepehuano de Durango . About 6.6% of the population were illiterate. 14,626 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 78% were men and 4.3% were unemployed. Almost a quarter of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Pueblo Nuevo comprises 302 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and La Ciudad are classified as urban by INEGI . In the 2010 census, three towns had a population of over 1000, another 28 towns had at least 200 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
El Salto | 24,241 |
La Ciudad | 2,601 |
San Bernardino de Milpillas Chico | 1,296 |
San Jerónimo | 915 |
El Mil Diez | 896 |
Mesa de San Pedro | 771 |
Estación Coyotes ( José María Morelos ) | 668 |
Llano Grande de Milpillas Chico | 627 |
San Francisco de Lajas ( Lajas ) | 610 |
La Peña | 601 |
Chavarría Nuevo | 506 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Pueblo Nuevo (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Pueblo Nuevo (Spanish; PDF)