Municipio Vicente Guerrero (Durango)
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Country | Mexico | |
State | Durango | |
Seat | Vicente Guerrero | |
surface | 370.6 km² | |
Residents | 21,117 (2010) | |
density | 57 inhabitants per km² | |
founding | 1952 | |
INEGI no. | 10038 |
Coordinates: 23 ° 45 ′ N , 104 ° 0 ′ W
Vicente Guerrero is a municipality in the southwest of the Mexican state Durango . The municipality of Vicente Guerrero has about 21,000 inhabitants and an area of 370.6 km². The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is the eponymous Vicente Guerrero .
geography
The municipality of Vicente Guerrero is located in the southeast of the state of Durango at an altitude between 1800 m and 2800 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 made up of alluviums (39%), conglomerates (36%), rhyolite tuffs (15%) and limestone (7%); Soil type of 35% of the municipality is the Kastanozem , followed by 31% Leptosol and 19% Chernozem . Almost 49% of the community area is used for arable farming, almost 58% as pasture.
The municipality of Pueblo Nuevo borders on the municipalities of Nombre de Dios , Poanas and Súchil, as well as the state of Zacatecas .
population
In the 2010 census, 21,117 people in 5,445 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 166 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 95 speakers of the Tepehuano de Durango . About 3.8% of the population were illiterate. 7,978 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 71% were men or 7.4% were unemployed. About 11.6% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Pueblo Nuevo comprises 18 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Two places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, another eight places had at least 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Vicente Guerrero | 15,982 |
San Francisco Javier | 1,669 |
Graceros | 959 |
San Isidro de Murillos | 658 |
San Pedro Alcantara | 493 |
San Jose de las Corrientes | 445 |
El Ancón | 415 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Vicente Guerrero (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Vicente Guerrero (Spanish; PDF)