The municipality had 276 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Cuencamé de Ceniceros (9,848), Cuauhtémoc (2,998), Velardeña (2,425), classified as urban, and Emiliano Zapata (2,050), Ramón Corona (1,870), Pedriceña (Estación Pedriceña) (1,765), and Pasaje (1,474), classified as rural.

Between these mountains lie the main state highway and the railroad to Torreón, Coahuila.

These two mountains Guadalupe and Jimulco shape the most wide canyon of this area, between them it spreads the Aguanaval river and the state railroad.

The surrounding area to this mountains is arid and easy to watch the Cretaceous formation of the plates and layers of the ground.

The Cuencamé stream runs into the Nazas river in the point named Rancho de Fernández.