Municipio Rincon de Romos
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Country | Mexico | |
State | Aguascalientes | |
Seat | Rincon de Romos | |
surface | 377.2 km² | |
Residents | 49,156 (2010) | |
density | 130.3 inhabitants per km² | |
Website | rinconderomos.gob.mx | |
INEGI no. | 01007 | |
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Presidente municipal | Francisco Javier Rivera Luévano | |
The Hacienda San Blas in the Municipio Rincón de Romos |
Coordinates: 22 ° 15 ′ N , 102 ° 19 ′ W
Rincón de Romos is the name of one of the eleven municipalities in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes . The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Rincón de Romos of the same name . The municipality has 49,156 inhabitants (2010) and covers an area of 377.2 km².
geography
The municipality of Rincón de Romos is located in the north of the state of Aguascalientes at an altitude between 1800 m and 2500 m . About 59% of the community area belong to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental , the rest to the Mesa del Centro . The municipality is located in the catchment area of the Río Lerma and thus drains into the Pacific . The geology of the municipality consists of 56% rhyolite tuff , 41% alluvion and 1% basalt ; Soil type of 37% of the municipality is the Durisol with 17% Cambisol , 16% Phaeozem and 15% Leptosol . About half of the area of the municipality is used for agriculture, about 40% as pasture land.
The municipality of Rincón de Romos borders the municipalities of Cosío , Tepezalá , Pabellón de Arteaga and San José de Gracia as well as the state of Zacatecas .
population
The 2010 census counted 49,156 people in 11,078 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 100 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 37 speakers of the Mazahua language . About 4.6% of the population were illiterate. 17,249 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which around 70% were men and around 9.3% were unemployed. Over nine percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Rincón de Romos comprises 230 inhabited localidades , of which the main town as well as Pabellón de Hidalgo and Pablo Escaleras are classified as urban by the INEGI . Five places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, another 15 places had at least 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Rincon de Romos | 27,988 |
Pabellón de Hidalgo | 4,316 |
Pablo Escaleras ( Escaleras ) | 2,790 |
San Jacinto | 2,356 |
El Bajío | 1,278 |
California | 935 |
La Boquilla | 873 |
El Valle de las Delicias | 769 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Rincón de Romos (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Rincón de Romos (Spanish; PDF)