Asientos is a municipality in the

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Aguascalientes Aguascalientes (; ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. At 22°N and ...

. It stands at . The town of Real de Asientos serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Asientos. Real de Asientos was declared a '' Pueblo Mágico'' by the Mexican Secretariat of Tourism (SECTUR) in 2006. As of March 2021 it is one of three Pueblos Mágicos in the state of Aguascalientes. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 45,492. Other than the town of Real de Asientos, the municipality had 250 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Villa Juárez (4,888), Ciénega Grande (3,348), classified as urban, and Guadalupe de Atlas (2,259),

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(1,583), Pilotos (1,331), Bimbaletes Aguascalientes (El Álamo) (1,223), Molinos (1,219), El Tule (1,189), Noria del Borrego (Norias) (1,186), Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos (1,074), and Jarillas (1,041), classified as rural.

Geography

The municipality of Asientos is located in the north-east of the state and has a territorial area of 547.74 kilometres squared which is equivalent to 9.84% of the total area of the state and it has an altitude ranging from 1800 to 2700 metres above sea level. It borders the municipality of

Tepezalá Tepezalá is a municipality and town in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. The town of Tepezalá serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Tepezalá. Tepezala is located on the foothills of the eastern mountains of the ...

to the north east, the municipality of Pabellón de Arteaga to the west, the municipalities of

San Francisco de los Romo San Francisco de los Romo is a municipality and Settlement classification in Mexico, city in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. The city of San Francisco de los Romo serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipalities of Mexico, mun ...

and

to the south east and the municipality of El Llano to the south. In the north and east, it borders the state of Zacatecas, specifically the municipalities of Loreto and Villa García; and in the south east, it borders the state of

Jalisco Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal En ...

, with the municipality of

Ojuelos de Jalisco Ojuelos de Jalisco is a colonial town and municipality in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The town's 1990 population was 7,265, although by the year 2010 it had increased to 11,881. It sits at the junction of Mexico Highways 51, 70, and 80. The mu ...

Government

The government of the municipality consists of the City Council, which is made up of a municipal president, a trustee and a council composed of nine members, five elected by relative majority and four by proportional representation. The city council is elected by universal, direct and secret vote in elections held on the first Sunday of July of the corresponding year.

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20040611143022/http://www.aguascalientes.gob.mx/estado/m_asie.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20070315094440/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/aguascalientes/municipios/01002a.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20070830041302/http://www.aguascalientes.gob.mx/transparencia/otros/municipios/asientos.asp *http://www.arellanomx.net/details.php?image_id=245 Municipalities of Aguascalientes {{Aguascalientes-geo-stub Pueblos Mágicos