- San Francisco del Rincón
San Francisco del Rincón is a city and municipality in the western part of the state of
Guanajuato ,Mexico . The city serves as the municipal seat for the municipality of San Francisco del Rincón. The city lies at the extreme northwest corner of the municipality.The settlement was founded as San Francisco del Tule on
January 21 ,1607 by a group of families of theP'urhépecha (Tarascan) and Hñähñu (Otomi ) ethnicities. It was declared avilla (town) onSeptember 6 ,1865 and a city onMarch 27 ,1867 . It is located at coord|21|01|22|N|101|51|36|W|, at an approximate altitude of 1,721 meters.The population of the municipality in the 2005 census was 103,217 people, of whom 66.15% (68,282) lived in the city of San Francisco del Rincón. The municipality has an areal extent of 415.73 km² (160.51 sq mi). The city is the sixth-largest community in the state in population.
References
* [http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/ Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005] INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
* [http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/EMM_guanajuato Guanajuato] Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
External links
* [http://www.sanfrancisco.gob.mx/ Municipio de San Francisco del Rincón] Official website
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