Municipio Tumbiscatío

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Tumbiscatío
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Michoacan
Seat Tumbiscatío de Ruiz
surface 2,068.8 km²
Residents 8363 (2010)
density 4.04 inhabitants per km²
founding 1955
Website tumbiscatio.gob.mx
INEGI no. 16096
politics
Presidente municipal Febronio García Aguilera

Coordinates: 18 ° 31 ′  N , 102 ° 30 ′  W

Tumbiscatío is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán in the Sierra-Costa region . The municipality had 8363 inhabitants at the 2010 census; the area of ​​the municipality is 2068.8 km². The largest place in the municipality and administrative seat is Tumbiscatío de Ruiz .

geography

The municipality of Tumbiscatío is located in the south of the Mexican state Michoacán at heights between 300  m and 2300  m in the Sierra-Costa region . It is entirely in the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre del Sur , two thirds in the hydrological region of Costa de Michoacán and one third in the hydrological region of Balsas . The geology of the Municipalities is 47% of metamorphic determined at 15% sandstone - conglomerate and 10% andesite - Tuff ; the predominant soil types are Luvisol (62%), Phaeozem (16%) and Cambisol (11%). About 90% of the community area is forested, about 5% is used as pastureland.

The municipality of Tumbiscatío borders on the municipalities of La Huacana , Aguililla , Apatzingán , Coalcomán de Vázquez Pallares and Arteaga .

population

In the 2010 census, 7890 people were counted in 1798 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 14 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . Almost 24 percent of the population were illiterate. 2428 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 86% were men or 1.2% were unemployed. 40% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Tumbiscatío comprises 185 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Two of the places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 178 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Tumbiscatío de Ruiz 2801
General Francisco Villa ( Las Cruces ) 1298
Potrerillos de Coria ( La Loma ) 0423

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