Camargo Municipality, Chihuahua Explained

Camargo
Settlement Type:Municipality
Pushpin Map:Mexico
Pushpin Label Position:above
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Mexico
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Mexico
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Chihuahua
Subdivision Type2:Municipal seat
Subdivision Name2:Santa Rosalía de Camargo
Area Total Km2:16066
Population As Of:2010
Population Total:48,748
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:27.6833°N -115°W

Camargo is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Santa Rosalía de Camargo. The municipality covers an area of 16,066 km2.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 48,748,[1] up from 47,209 as of 2005.[2]

The municipality had 623 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: Santa Rosalía de Camargo (40,221), classified as urban.[1]

The municipality has the second-largest land area in the state (after Ahumada), and is also one of the largest in all of Mexico. It is almost all very sparsely populated except for the city of Santa Rosalía de Camargo, which is the seventh-largest community in the state in population with around 40,000.

Geography

Towns and villages

Name Population (2005)
39,149
898
618
Total Municipality 47,209

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Camargo. Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). 23 April 2014.
  2. Web site: Camargo. Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal. 2008-08-18. dead. https://archive.today/20120729193146/http://www.e-mexico.gob.mx/work/EMM04/Chihuahua/mpios/08011a.htm. 2012-07-29.