Dulce, New Mexico
- For the same Portuguese fado singer Dulce Pontes see and composer.
- For Brazilian nun see Irmã Dulce.
- For Dulce of Barcelona (1160-1198), Aragonese princess, and from 1185 until her death Queen of Portugal see Dulce Barcelona.
Rio Arriba County
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Dulce is a settlement on community- free area, which is conducted for statistical purposes as a census-designated place (CDP). The place is located in Rio Arriba County in the north of the U.S. state of New Mexico. In 2010 Dulce had 2743 inhabitants.
Dulce is called by the Jicarilla Apache settled here as Loosi and is the main town and administrative headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation and therefore has a clear majority Indian population.
Geography
Dulce is located at 36 ° 56'22 " north latitude and 106 ° 59'23 " west longitude and extending 33.5 km ². The place is situated about two kilometers south of the border to Colorado on the Navajo River, a tributary of the opening into the Colorado River San Juan River.
Neighbouring places of Dulce are Pagosa Springs, Colorado ( 59.9 km to the north) and Chama (43,4 km east ).
The nearest large towns are New Mexico's capital, Santa Fe (211 km southeast), Albuquerque (274 km south) and Denver (520 km northeast)
Traffic
By Dulce proceeds of U.S. Highway 64, which further leads from the western border of New Mexico to Santa Fe and from there to the east. In addition there are a number of minor roads and local roads within.
Dulce has the Dulce Airport a private airfield.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Dulce in 2743 people in 880 households. The population density was 81.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 880 households lived statistically 3.05 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 91.7 percent Native American, 4.2 percent white, 0.6 percent African Americans, 0.1 percent ( three people) and Asians 1.9 per cent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 11.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
32.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 7.5 percent were 65 years or older. 50.7 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 43,346. The per capita income was $ 15,969. 22.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.