Casas Grandes Municipality
Casas Grandes | |
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Municipio libre (municipality) | |
Municipio de Casas Grandes | |
Location athin the state o Chihuahua | |
Coordinates (municipal seat): 30°22′31″N 107°56′54″W / 30.37528°N 107.94833°W | |
Kintra | Mexico |
State | Chihuahua |
Settlement foondit | 1661 |
Municipality creatit | 1820 |
Foondit bi | Caiptain Andrés Gracia |
Cabecera municipal (Municipal seat) | Casas Grandes |
localidades (localities) | Principal localities (2005 population)
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Govrenment election held 1 Julie 2007 | |
• Teep | H. Ayuntamiento Municipal (municipal govrenment) |
• Presidente Municipal | Dagoberto Quintana Cano (PAN) |
Area | |
• Municipio libre (municipality) | 3719 km2 (1,436 sq mi) |
• Urban | 3.82 km2 (1.47 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1480 m (4,860 ft) |
Population (2005)[2] | |
• Municipio libre (municipality) | 8,413 |
• Density | 2.3/km2 (5.9/sq mi) |
data frae II Conteo de Población y Vivienda | |
Time zone | UTC-7 (Tiempo de la Montaña (Mountain Time)) |
códigos postales (postal codes) | 31850 through to 31863 |
Area code(s) | 636 |
INEGI state code | 08 |
INEGI municipality code | 013 |
Website | http://www.casasgrandes.gob.mx |
Casas Grandes Municipality is locatit in the northren Mexican state o Chihuahua. The municipal seat is the toun o Casas Grandes.
The pre-Columbie airchaeological zone Casas Grandes an its central steid, efter which the municipality is namit, is locatit athin the municipality's territory. The steid o Casas Grandes, alternatively kent as Paquimé, is ane o the maist significant pre-Columbie cultural an airchaeological steids in the region o northwastren Mexico an the soothwastren Unitit States kent in some archaeological contexts as the Oasisamerica cultur aurie.
Geography
[eedit | eedit soorce]The municipality o Casas Grandes is situatit in the northwastren sector o Chihuahua state, the lairgest state o Mexico bi aurie. (Pueblo de) Casas Grandes, the municipal caipital an its maist populous localidad (locality or dounset), is approximately 359 kilometre (223 mi) tae the northwast o the state's caipital, the ceety o Chihuahua. Casas Grandes is bundit bi the municipalities o Janos tae the north, Galeana, Nuevo Casas Grandes an Madera, Chihuahua tae the east, an Ignacio Zaragoza tae the sooth. On its wastren flank Casas Grandes adjoins municipalities athin the state o Sonora.[3]
Touns an veelages
[eedit | eedit soorce]Village | Population |
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Tot Municipality | 8,413 |
Casas Grandes | 3,835 |
Colonia Juárez | 1,046 |
Mata Ortiz | 955 |
Sección Enríquez | 522 |
Notes
[eedit | eedit soorce]References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- INAFED (Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal) (2005). "Casas Grandes, Estado de Chihuahua". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México (online version at E-Local ed.). INAFED, Secretaría de Gobernación. Archived frae the original on 17 Juin 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2008. (in Spaingie)
- INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática) (2006). "Estado de Chihuahua: Población total, edad mediana y relación hombres-mujeres por municipio según sexo" (PDF). II Conteo de Población y Vivienda 2005. Resultados definitivos. Tabulados básicos. INEGI.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link) (in Spaingie)