El Potosí - Durango

Facts about El Potosí

Location of El Potosí

El Potosí is located in the municipality of Poanas in the Mexican state of Durango with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -104.101944
Latitude (dec): 23.947500

Height over sea level of El Potosí

The locations medium height over sea level is 1880 meters.

Population in El Potosí

The over all population of El Potosí is 655 persons, 312 of them are male and 343 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 247 minors and 408 adults, with 81 of them being 60 years and older.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 118 citizens of El Potosí.

Economic situation

In El Potosí exist about 172 households.

Of these households 157 are common houses or apartments, 21 are without floor and about 2 consist of one room only.

145 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 156 are connected to the public water supply, 156 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 4 households to own a computer, 81 own a washing machine and 150 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in El Potosí

Besides the 27 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 23 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

22 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 327 persons did not finish the school. 72 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 34 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 21 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 6 years.