Asientos

Asientos
Coat of arms of Asientos
Municipality location in Aguascalientes
Municipality location in Aguascalientes
Asientos is located in Mexico
Asientos
Asientos
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 22°14′N 102°05′W / 22.233°N 102.083°W / 22.233; -102.083
Country Mexico
StateAguascalientes
Area
 • Total547.22 km2 (211.28 sq mi)
Population
 (2015)
 • Total46,464
 • Density85/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)

Asientos is a municipality in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. It stands at 22°14′N 102°05′W / 22.233°N 102.083°W / 22.233; -102.083. 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.[1] 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.[2]

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), Lázaro Cárdenas (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.[2]

  1. ^ "Real de Asientos, Aguascalientes | Secretaría de Turismo" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Asientos". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Archived from the original on 24 February 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2014.