Municipio Acacoyagua
Acacoyagua | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Acacoyagua |
surface | 248.9 km² |
Residents | 16,814 (2010) |
density | 67.5 inhabitants per km² |
founding | November 10, 1947 |
INEGI no. | 07001 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Elmer Campos Gutiérrez |
Zócalo of Acacoyagua |
Coordinates: 15 ° 21 ′ N , 92 ° 41 ′ W
Acacoyagua is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality is located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas , has almost 17,000 inhabitants and an area of 248.9 km². The administrative seat is Acacoyagua of the same name .
The name of the municipality comes from Nahuatl and means "seat of the leader" or "place of the lords".
geography
The municipality of Acacoyagua is located in the south of the Mexican state of Chiapas in the Soconusco region at heights of up to 2700 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Central American Cordillera and is almost entirely in the hydrological region of Costa de Chiapas . The geology of the municipality is 79% granite with 15% alluvion ; the predominant soil types are Leptosol (53%), Phaeozem (32%) and Cambisol (11%). About two thirds of the community area is forested, a good 20% is used as pastureland.
The municipality of Acacoyagua borders on the municipality of Mapastepec , Capitán Luis Ángel Vidal , Escuintla and Acapetahua .
population
In the 2010 census, 16,814 people in 3,838 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 29 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . Almost 14 percent of the population were illiterate. 5,161 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 86% were men and 2.6% were unemployed. Almost 38% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Acacoyagua comprises 113 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Two places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 91 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Acacoyagua | 7515 |
Hidalgo | 1209 |
Jalapa | 849 |
Los Cacaos | 845 |
Nueva Libertad | 801 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Acacoyagua (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Acacoyagua (Spanish; PDF)
- ceieg.chiapas.gob.mx: map of the municipality