Poanas | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Mapsize: | 300px |
Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
Pushpin Label Position: | above |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mexico |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Durango |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipal seat |
Subdivision Name2: | Villa Unión |
Area Total Km2: | 1841 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 24,918 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 23.9667°N -107°W |
Poanas is a municipality in the Mexican state of Durango. The municipal seat lies at Villa Unión. The municipality covers an area of 1841 km2.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 24,918,[1] up from 23,466 as of 2005.[2]
The municipality had 61 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Villa Unión (10,753), classified as urban, and Cieneguilla (1,984), San Atenógenes (La Villita) (1,844), La Joya (1,826), Orizaba (1,452), and Narciso Mendoza (1,053), classified as rural.[1]