Municipio Rincon de Romos

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Rincon de Romos
location
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
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
politics
Presidente municipal Francisco Javier Rivera Luévano
The Hacienda San Blas in the Municipio Rincón de Romos
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 04,316
Pablo Escaleras ( Escaleras ) 02,790
San Jacinto 02,356
El Bajío 01,278
California 00.935
La Boquilla 00.873
El Valle de las Delicias 00.769

Web links

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