Coyame del Sotol Municipality

Coyame del Sotol is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat is Coyame. The municipality covers an area of .

As of the 2010 census, the municipality had a total population of 1,681.

The municipality had 232 localities, none of which had a population over 1,000.

Name

"Coyame" is the Apache toponym of a nearby arroyo. "Sotol" is the local name for Dasylirion wheeleri, a flowering desert plant, and for sotol, a distilled mezcal-like spirit made from it.

Geography

Towns and villages

The municipality has 46 localities. These are the largest:

Adjacent municipalities

• Ojinaga Municipality – east
• Aldama Municipality – south, southwest
• Ahumada Municipality – northwest
• Guadalupe Municipality – north

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