Cerro Gordo - San Luis Potosí

Facts about Cerro Gordo

Location of Cerro Gordo

Cerro Gordo is located in the municipality of Zaragoza in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -100.806944
Latitude (dec): 21.976389

Height over sea level of Cerro Gordo

The locations medium height over sea level is 1860 meters.

Population in Cerro Gordo

The over all population of Cerro Gordo is 1733 persons, 864 of them are male and 869 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 923 minors and 810 adults, with 70 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Cerro Gordo

27 inhabitants of the location Cerro Gordo in Mexico live in indigenous households. 17 of the citizens 5 years and older, speak an indigenous language. The count of people who only speak an indigenous language without having knowledge of the Spanish language is 0 people, while 14 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 947 citizens of Cerro Gordo.

Economic situation

In Cerro Gordo exist about 316 households.

Of these households 275 are common houses or apartments, 87 are without floor and about 17 consist of one room only.

145 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 247 are connected to the public water supply, 238 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 1 households to own a computer, 135 own a washing machine and 233 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Cerro Gordo

Besides the 139 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 21 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

147 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 488 persons did not finish the school. 290 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 19 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 46 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 5 years.