Cosio is a

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and town in the

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. It stands at . The municipal seat is the town of

Cosío Cosio is a Municipalities of Aguascalientes, municipality and town in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. It stands at . The municipal seat is the town of Cosío, Aguascalientes, Cosío. As of 2020, the town of Cosío had a population of 17, ...

. As of 2020, the town of Cosío had a population of 17,000.

Name

There are conflicting accounts on the person after which Cosío was named though it is primarily said to have been named after either Felipe Cosío, former

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; or Luis de Cosío, who had an instrumental part in helping Cosío become a municipality.

Coat of Arms

A large outline of the letter C framing the other elements holds the town motto, "Siempre Progresando." At the top, a simplified illustration the landscape. On the left, a map of the territory with a

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plant, a

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, a church, main roads, and a

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representing its inhabitant's industriousness. On the right, a book with the symbol for writing or a torch. At the bottom, cultivated land with a

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, watering equipment, and commonly cultivated crops including

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History

Founding

Cosío was founded December 28, 1857. Prior to its establishment, the area was part of neighboring municipality Rincon de Romos and belonged to the San Jacinto hacienda, owned by Pío Bermejillo. A tenant of the hacienda, Cornelio Acosta, asked for permission to build in the area and founded Natillas Ranch. Due to its positioning at the northernmost part of

, Natillas was used as a rest stop for those traveling between the state and the bordering state of

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Demographics

2010

In 2010, the municipality had a total population of 15,042. As of 2010, the town of Cosío had a population of 4,898. Other than the town of Cosío, the municipality had 85 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: La Punta (2,416), El Refugio de Providencia (Providencia) (1,377), El Salero (1,229), and

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(1,026), classified as rural.

2020

Population

By 2020, the population increased to 17,000.

Geography

Climate

Steppe climate with warm summers, an average temperature of 63.1°F. The hottest months are May through August; the coldest are December through February. The average rainfall is 16.59". Frosts last from 20 to 40 days a year. The dominant trade winds are from the northeast to the southeast during the summer and part of the fall.

Main Highways

Federal

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* Carretera Federal 45D

State

* Carretera Estatal 25 * Carretera Estatal 26 * Carretera Estatal 39 * Carretera Estatal 50 * Carretera Estatal 62 * Carretera Estatal 64 * Carretera Estatal 147

Neighboring Municipalities

* Cuauhtémoc, Zacatecas –

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–

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–

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Distances

: 34 miles. *

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: 27 miles. *

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66 miles. * Jesús María 30 miles. *

9 miles.

Economy

Main Sectors, Products, and Services

Agriculture

Most of the municipality's agriculture is

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= Perennial

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= Spring and Summer

= *

corn Maize (; ''Zea mays''), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout Poaceae, grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples of Mexico, indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago ...

beans A bean is the seed of some plants in the legume family (Fabaceae) used as a vegetable for human consumption or animal feed. The seeds are often preserved through drying (a ''pulse''), but fresh beans are also sold. Dried beans are tradition ...

chili peppers Chili peppers, also spelled chile or chilli ( ), are varieties of berry-fruit plants from the genus ''Capsicum'', which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for their pungency. They are used as a spice to add pungency ( ...

potatoes The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'', a perennial in the nightshade famil ...

broccoli Broccoli (''Brassica oleracea'' var. ''italica'') is an edible green plant in the Brassicaceae, cabbage family (family Brassicaceae, genus ''Brassica'') whose large Pseudanthium, flowering head, plant stem, stalk and small associated leafy gre ...

peas Pea (''pisum'' in Latin) is a pulse or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Peas are eaten as a vegetable. Carl Linnaeus gave the species the scientific name ''Pisum sativum ...

sorghum ''Sorghum bicolor'', commonly called sorghum () and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the Poaceae, grass genus ''Sorghum (genus), Sorghum'' cultivated for its grain. The grain i ...

= Autumn and Winter

= *

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* canary seed

Livestock

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Charolais cattle The Charolais () or Charolaise () is a French breed of taurine beef cattle. It originates in, and is named for, the Charolais area surrounding Charolles, in the Saône-et-Loire department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern Fr ...

Zebu cattle The zebu (; ''Bos indicus''), also known as indicine cattle and humped cattle, is a species or subspecies of domestic cattle originating in South Asia. Zebu, like many Sanga cattle breeds, differs from taurine cattle by a fatty hump on their sh ...

Industry

Small industrial plants and workshops, a glove assembly plant, a children's clothing factory, balcony workshops and some extraction of minerals.

Commerce

Many commercial establishments, grocery stores, butcher shops and bakeries.

Services

Telephone services and means of transport such as taxis and buses are offered.

Fishing

Fishing can be practiced in the Natillas dam, a body of water mostly populated with

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tilapia Tilapia ( ) is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the coelotilapine, coptodonine, heterotilapine, oreochromine, pelmatolapiine, and tilapiine tribes (formerly all were "Tilapiini"), with the economically mos ...

and

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Socioeconomic Status

Cosío is more disadvantaged socioeconomically compared the rest of Aguascalientes as a whole.

Lack of Access to Basic Necessities

Access to Utilities

Housing Issues

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20041011045925/http://www.aguascalientes.gob.mx/estado/m_cos.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Cosio Municipalities of Aguascalientes