El Caracol (Hidalgo, Michoacán de Ocampo)

Maps, photos and statistics of El Caracol, a beautiful large village of 654 inhabitants of the State of Michoacán de Ocampo

The place of El Caracol is inside the municipality of Hidalgo (in the State of Michoacán de Ocampo). There are 654 inhabitants. It is the most populated town in the position #18 of the whole municipality. El Caracol is at 2,186 meters of altitude.

Data: In El Caracol, 29% of individuals have completed secondary education and 5% of households have a personal computer, laptop or tablet. More interesting data at the bottom of this page.

To locate this beautiful town inside the municipality, you must know that El Caracol is located at 25.2 kilometers (in direction Northwest) from the locality of Ciudad Hidalgo, which is the one that has more inhabitants inside the municipality. With our webpage and with our satelital map that you can find below, you can know where is and visit the surroundings of El Caracol.

#1 Where is El Caracol? How to go? Map

Map to know how to get to El Caracol (Michoacán de Ocampo) by road and with geographical references of the surrounding towns. With the controls you can zoom in and out to the position of El Caracol, which has the following symbol Map marker

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#2 The population of El Caracol (Michoacán de Ocampo) is 654 inhabitants

Population data in El Caracol (Hidalgo, Michoacán de Ocampo)
YearFemale InhabitantsMale inhabitantsTotal population
2020352302654
2010407339746
2005449363812
Evolution of the population in El Caracol: Total   Men   Women
Other demographic data in El Caracol:
20202010
Fertility rate (children per woman):2.78.55
Population coming from outside the State of Michoacán de Ocampo:2.60%1.21%
Illiterate population:7.19%6.57%
Illiterate population (men):3.52%8.55%
Illiterate population (women):3.67%4.91%
Schooling level:7.26.19
Schooling level (men):6.75.76
Schooling level (women):7.646.56
Indigenous culture data in El Caracol:
20202010
Percentage of indigenous population:0.61%0.00%
Percentage speaking an indigenous language:0.46%0.00%
Percentage who speak an indigenous language and do not speak Spanish:0.00%0.00%
Comparison of percentages of indigenous population in the town of El Caracol, compared with its municipality, with the percentage in the State of Michoacán de Ocampo, and in the country as a whole.

Find out more interesting facts about all the towns in the Municipality of Hidalgo (statistics, photos, maps, restaurants...) at this link.

Unemployment, economy and dwelling data in El Caracol:
20202010
Employed population over 12 years:49.85%32.44%
Employed population over 12 years (men):66.56%59.29%
Employed population over 12 years (women):35.51%10.07%
Number of inhabited private dwellings:188328
Homes with electricity:100.00%94.34%
Housing with piped water:100.00%97.64%
Dwellings with toilet or sanitary facilities:98.94%95.28%
Dwellings with radio:57.45%71.23%
Housing with television:89.36%87.74%
Housing with refrigerator:84.57%64.62%
Housing with washing machine:72.87%56.13%
Housing with automobile:38.30%39.15%
Households with personal computer, laptop or tablet:4.79%2.36%
Homes with landline telephone:27.13%32.55%
Dwellings with cellular phones:75.00%28.30%
Homes with Internet:3.19%0.00%
Comparison of percentages of single persons in El Caracol (over 12 years), comparing the same percentage with the municipality, with the State of Michoacán de Ocampo, and with the total for the country.

#3 Satellite photo of El Caracol

With the satellite map of El Caracol will I be able to look for my location? Yes, access the map, zoom in and see the surroundings of this town and the municipality of Hidalgo. Get free live access to satellite views of 2024 of El Caracol.



#4 Hotels and Accommodation near El Caracol

Do you want to stay in El Caracol? We don't have any hotel registered in this town, but you can check in this list of the closest accommodations to El Caracol:

#5 Population pyramid of El Caracol (Michoacán de Ocampo)

In El Caracol there is a very characteristic age structure of the population, which you can see in the following population pyramid, with data from 2005. After analyzing the demographic data of El Caracol, separated by men and women, and also by age groups, we can analyze what the future of the population in this town will be like.

Population pyramid of El Caracol
Data of the age pyramid of the town El Caracol (inhabitants year 2020)
Age rangeNumber of womenNumber of menTotal population
Infants (0-5 years)443579
Youth (6-14 years)523991
Adults (15-59 years)188171359
Elderly (60+ years)6857125

#6 Photos of El Caracol

Would you like to see what this town looks like and enjoy landscape photos of El Caracol? We have located on the Internet several beautiful images of places and locations nearby, so you can see the beauty of this Mexican town. Some are artistic photos and others are simply panoramic photos taken by amateurs and friends who simply like El Caracol.

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#7 The Postal Code of El Caracol (Michoacán de Ocampo) is 61230

Are you going to send a letter to El Caracol? Do you have a friend in El Caracol and want to send them a gift through the postal service? The Postal Code of El Caracol consists of the following 5 digits: 61230. If you want to know more about how Post Codes are determined in Mexico, the first two postal digits of El Caracol ("61") correspond to the state code of Michoacán de Ocampo, and the last three correspond to the people themselves. In Mexico, the same ZIP code can be assigned to several towns.

#8 Vote for El Caracol as the most beautiful town in Mexico

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  3. Ciénega Larga (49 inhabitants)
  4. El Chiquihuite (12 inhabitants)
  5. El Oyamel (7 inhabitants)
  6. Fraccionamiento San Jerónimo (Rincón de San Jerónimo) (622 inhabitants)
  7. La Ortiga (153 inhabitants)
  8. Palomas San Isidro (206 inhabitants)
  9. Parque Los Manantiales (11 inhabitants)
  10. Peñuelas (El Tren Peñuelas) (181 inhabitants)
  11. Puerto de Cuitareo (Puerto del Sagrado Corazón) (294 inhabitants)
  12. Puerto el León (- inhabitants)
  13. San José (14 inhabitants)
  14. San Pedro Jácuaro (Las Joyas) (2219 inhabitants)
  15. Tulitos (27 inhabitants)