San José del Rincón

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San José del Rincón
Municipality
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San José del Rincón
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 19°39′38″N100°09′09″W / 19.66056°N 100.15250°W / 19.66056; -100.15250 Coordinates: 19°39′38″N100°09′09″W / 19.66056°N 100.15250°W / 19.66056; -100.15250 [1]
CountryFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
State Flag of Mexico (state).svg Mexico
Established 2002
Seat San José del Rincón Centro
Government [2]
 • President Jesús Rolando Rangel Espinosa
Area [3]
 • Total 489 km2 (189 sq mi)
Elevation [1] (of seat) 2,747 m (9,012 ft)
Population (2010 Census) [3]
 • Total 91,345
 • Estimate (2015 Intercensal Survey) [4] 93,878
 • Density 190/km2 (480/sq mi)
 • Seat 1,638
Time zone UTC-6 (Central)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (Central)
Postal code of seat 50660
Area code 712
Demonym Montero
Website Official website

San José del Rincón is a municipality in the State of Mexico. Its inhabitants are referred to as monteros. [5]

Municipalities are the second-level administrative divisions of Mexico, where the first-level administrative division is the state. As of the establishment of two new municipalities in Chiapas in September 2017, there are 2,448 municipalities in Mexico, not including the 16 delegaciones of Mexico City. The internal political organization and their responsibilities are outlined in the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution and detailed in the constitutions of the states to which they belong.

State of Mexico State of Mexico

The State of Mexico is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is the most populous, as well as the most densely populated state. It is divided into 125 municipalities and its capital city is Toluca de Lerdo.

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Geography

San José del Rincón is located in the western part of the State of Mexico on its border with Michoacán. From north to south, it borders the municipalities of El Oro, San Felipe del Progreso, Villa Victoria and Villa de Allende in the State of Mexico, and the municipalities of Tlalpujahua, Senguío, Angangueo, Ocampo and Zitácuaro in Michoacán. The municipality covers an area of 489 square kilometres (189 sq mi). [3] The highest point in the municipality is the Cerro de Cabrero in the south, at 3,260 metres (10,700 ft) above sea level. [6]

Michoacán State of Mexico

Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo, is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. The State is divided into 113 municipalities and its capital city is Morelia. The city was named after José María Morelos, one of the main heroes of the Mexican War of Independence.

El Oro de Hidalgo Town & Municipality in State of Mexico, Mexico

The name El Oro de Hidalgo, is not from Nahuatl, like most other municipality names in the state, but from Spanish, and simply means "the gold." It has subsequently been given an alternative Nahuatl name of "Teocuitlatl," meaning "sacred excrement," referring to gold. Its seal, in the form of an Aztec glyph, contains elements referring to gold and to caves, of which there are many in the municipality. The municipality is located in the northwest of the State of Mexico, 96 km from the state capital of Toluca, and is bounded by the municipalities of Temascalcingo to the north, Jocotitlán to the east, San Felipe del Progreso and San José del Rincón to the south, and by the state of Michoacán to the west. As of 2005, the municipal seat with the formal name of El Oro de Hidalgo had a population of 5,797, and the municipality of El Oro had a population of 31,847. While it made its name as a major gold and silver mining town from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, the mines have since been tapped out and the town is turning to tourism for economic development.

San Felipe del Progreso Place in Mexico State, Mexico

San Felipe del Progreso is a town and municipality in the northwest of the State of Mexico. It is in the western part of the state, 59 km from the state capital of Toluca and 72 km southwest of Atlacomulco. In colonial times, the village was founded as "San Felipe" or "San Felipe Ixtlahuaca". Later it was called "San Felipe el Grande" and "San Felipe del Obraje". In the second half of the 19th century, it received its current name of "San Felipe del Progreso."

The northern part of the municipality lies within the Lerma River basin, while the southern part lies in the Cutzamala River sub-basin of the Balsas River system, and is drained by the Arroyo Grande [6] which flows southeast into Villa Victoria Reservoir, which is part of Mexico City's water supply.

Lerma River river in Mexico

The Lerma River is Mexico's second longest river. It is a 750 km-long (470 mi) river in west-central Mexico that begins in Mexican Plateau at an altitude over 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) above sea level, and ends where it empties into Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest lake, near Guadalajara, Jalisco. Lake Chapala is the starting point of Río Grande de Santiago, which some treat as a continuation of the Lerma River. In combination, the two are often called the Lerma Santiago River. The Lerma River is notorious for its pollution, but the water quality has demonstrated considerable improvement in recent years due mostly to government environmental programs and through massive upgrading projects of sanitation works.

The Cutzamala River is a river of Mexico.

Balsas River river in Mexico

The Balsas River is a major river of south-central Mexico.

Forests cover 30.7% of San José del Rincón and are mostly located in the mountainous western part of the municipality, [2] where the predominant trees are oyamel and pine. [5] These forests are protected as part of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. [6] The rest of the land in the municipality is mainly used for agriculture and livestock grazing. Soils in the municipality are mostly andosols with isolated areas of planosols in the northeast and cambisols in the east. [6]

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve biosphere reserve

The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is a World Heritage Site containing most of the over-wintering sites of the eastern population of the monarch butterfly. The reserve is located in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests ecoregion on the border of Michoacán and State of Mexico, 100 km, northwest of Mexico City. Millions of butterflies arrive in the reserve annually. Butterflies only inhabit a fraction of the 56,000 hectares of the reserve from October–March. The biosphere’s mission is to protect the butterfly species and its habitat.

Andosol soil type

Andosols are soils found in volcanic areas formed in volcanic tephra. In some cases can Andosols also be found outside active volcanic areas. Andosols cover an estimated 1–2% of earth's ice-free land surface. Andosols are a Reference Soil Group of the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB). They are closely related to other types of soils such as Vitrosols, Vitrandosols, Vitrons and Pumice Soils that are used in different soil classification systems.

Planosol soil type

A Planosol in the World Reference Base for Soil Resources is a soil with a light-coloured, coarse-textured, surface horizon that shows signs of periodic water stagnation and abruptly overlies a dense, slowly permeable subsoil with significantly more clay than the surface horizon. In the US Soil Classification of 1938 used the name Planosols, whereas its successor, the USDA soil taxonomy, includes most Planosols in the Great Groups Albaqualfs, Albaquults and Argialbolls.

The climate is temperate sub-humid with rainy summers. Average temperatures range between 12 and 18 degrees Celsius. Frost can occur between December and March; February and March bring winds and dust. More than 100 mm of rain falls in each of the months from June to September. [6]

History

The municipality of San José del Rincón was created by government decree on 2 October 2001, [5] which went into force on 1 January 2002. [2] Its territory previously comprised the western part of the municipality of San Felipe del Progreso. [2]

Administration

Municipal elections are held every three years. The current President of the municipality is Jesús Rolando Rangel Espinosa of the PRI. [2]

Demographics

In the 2010 Mexican Census, the municipality of San José del Rincón [5] recorded a population of 91,345 inhabitants living in 17,707 households. [3] Its annual growth rate of 2.7% was the highest in the State of Mexico. [7] [8] It recorded a population of 93,878 inhabitants in the 2015 Intercensal Survey. [4]

There are 137 localities in the municipality, [6] three of which are classified as urban:

In the 2015 Intercensal Survey, 89.67% of people in the municipality identified themselves as indigenous. [4] In the 2010 Census, 11,191 people or 12% of the population in San José del Rincón reported speaking an indigenous language, of which 10,916 spoke Mazahua. [1]

Economy

San José del Rincón is one of the poorest municipalities in the State of Mexico. [7] [8] Its main economic activities are agriculture, animal husbandry, commerce and handicrafts. [6]

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