Municipio Uruachi

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Uruachi
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Seat Uruachi
surface 2,663.1 km²
Residents 8200 (2010)
density 3.08 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 08066
politics
Presidente municipal Adriana Campos Rascón

Coordinates: 27 ° 52 ′  N , 108 ° 13 ′  W

Uruachi is a municipality with 8,200 inhabitants in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . The municipality has an area of ​​2663.1 km². The administrative seat and largest place in the municipality is Uruachi .

geography

The municipality of Uruachi is located in the west of the state of Chihuahua at an altitude between 200  m and 2900  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Occidental . A good 72% of the community area is in the catchment area of ​​the Río Mayo , a good 27% drains via the Río Fuerte , each into the Gulf of California . The geology of the municipality is dominated by over 85% extrusive rock (61% rhyolite tuff ) with 11% sedimentary rock ; The predominant soil types in the municipality are the Phaeozem (45%), Regosol , Leptosol and Cambisol (each around 17%). Almost 90% of the municipality is occupied by forests, almost 10% serve as pastureland.

The municipality is surrounded by the municipalities Maguarichi , Ocampo , Moris , Chínipas , Guazapares and the state of Sonora .

population

The 2010 census counted 8,200 people in 2087 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 1595 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , of which 1068 speakers of the Tarahumara language and 454 speakers of the Guarijío . About 21% of the population were illiterate. 2,690 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 88% were men and approx. 5% were unemployed. Almost 46% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Uruachi comprises 262 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Five places had a population of over 200 in the 2010 census:

place Residents
Uruachi 1199
Jicamorachi 0374
Gosogachi 0327
Calaveras 0285
El Rebaje 0235

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