Municipio Acacoyagua

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Acacoyagua
location
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, 1947error
INEGI no. 07001
politics
Presidente municipal Elmer Campos Gutiérrez
Zócalo of Acacoyagua
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 0849
Los Cacaos 0845
Nueva Libertad 0801

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