La Peña - Durango

Facts about La Peña

Location of La Peña

La Peña is located in the municipality of Pueblo Nuevo in the Mexican state of Durango with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -105.377222
Latitude (dec): 23.570833

Height over sea level of La Peña

The locations medium height over sea level is 2760 meters.

Population in La Peña

The over all population of La Peña is 827 persons, 411 of them are male and 416 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 396 minors and 431 adults, with 47 of them being 60 years and older.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 424 citizens of La Peña.

Economic situation

In La Peña exist about 181 households.

Of these households 180 are common houses or apartments, 20 are without floor and about 1 consist of one room only.

143 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 118 are connected to the public water supply, 172 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 0 households to own a computer, 52 own a washing machine and 151 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in La Peña

Besides the 34 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 6 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

23 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 267 persons did not finish the school. 175 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 23 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 31 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.