Municipio Pueblo Nuevo (Durango)

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Pueblo Nuevo
location
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 02,601
San Bernardino de Milpillas Chico 01,296
San Jerónimo 00.915
El Mil Diez 00.896
Mesa de San Pedro 00.771
Estación Coyotes ( José María Morelos ) 00.668
Llano Grande de Milpillas Chico 00.627
San Francisco de Lajas ( Lajas ) 00.610
La Peña 00.601
Chavarría Nuevo 00.506

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