Uriangato
Uriangato | |
|---|---|
| Uriangato City | |
Uriangato Historic Downtown | |
| Nickname: Spanish: Lugar donde el sol se pone levantado (English: Place where sunset occurs on top) | |
| Coordinates: 20°08′N 101°10′W / 20.133°N 101.167°W | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Guanajuato |
| Region | Centro |
| Municipality | Uriangato |
| Foundation | February 20, 1604 |
| Founded by | Fray Diego de Chavez |
| Government | |
| • Municipal President | Carlos "Tanao" Guzman Camarena (PVEM) |
| Area | |
| 14.91 km2 (5.76 sq mi) | |
| • Metro | 276.1 km2 (106.6 sq mi) |
| • Municipality | 116.3 km2 (44.9 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,810 m (5,940 ft) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
| 52,156 | |
| • Density | 3,500/km2 (9,100/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 108,755 |
| • Metro density | 390/km2 (1,000/sq mi) |
| • Municipality | 61,494 |
| • Municipality density | 530/km2 (1,400/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Uriangatense |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Website | www |
Uriangato is a city and one of 46 municipalities of Guanajuato, located just north of the border between the states of Guanajuato and Michoacán in west central Mexico. Uriangato city is geographically united with Moroleon city and Yuriria city, these three cities form a metropolitan area. Since October 2010, this metropolitan area is the 75th biggest city of Mexico and the 5th biggest in Guanajuato. It is smallest of the 56 metropolitan areas in Mexico.
According to the United Nations/PNUD, in 2005 Uriangato was a municipality of High Human Development, with an index of 0.8147 (scale 0 to 1). This puts Uriangato at 432nd place in the country (2,454 municipalities of México) and 8th in all Guanajuato state (46 municipalities of Guanajuato), in terms of quality of life.
An average person in Uriangato earned $8,607 US dollars ($110,200 pesos) during one year (2005), which puts Uriangato in 365th place in the country and 12th place in Guanajuato state.
Uriangato, like all of Guanajuato state, is considered by CONAPO to be a High Migration Municipality, because more than 10% of its families receive money from their relatives in the United States. This situation has improved the quality of life in Uriangato, most of whose emigrants live in California, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania and New York.