Municipio Altamira

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Altamira
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Tamaulipas
Seat Altamira
surface 1,666.1 km²
Residents 212.001 (2010)
density 127.2 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 28003

Coordinates: 22 ° 24 ′  N , 97 ° 54 ′  W

Altamira is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas . The municipality covers an area of ​​1666.1 km² and, according to the 2010 census, has a population of 212,001. The administrative seat of the municipality is Altamira of the same name , while the most populous place is Miramar . The municipality is part of the Zona Metropolitana de Tampico .

geography

The municipality Altamira is located in the southeast of the state of Tamaulipas at an altitude of up to 300  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the coastal plains of the northern Gulf. The predominant rock types are lutite and sandstone , the soil type of over 62% of the municipality is the vertisol . 70% of the community area is used for agriculture, around 12% is water.

The municipality of Altamira borders the municipalities of Aldama , Ciudad Madero , Tampico and González as well as the state of Veracruz and the Gulf of Mexico .

population

The 2010 census counted 212,001 people in 57,130 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 2,864 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 1,476 speakers of the Nahuatl and 905 of the Huasteco . 3.8% of the population were illiterate. 85,553 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which around 70% were men and 6% were unemployed. Over seven percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Altamira comprises 330 localidades , of which the main town as well as Altamira and Cuauhtémoc are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 13 towns had a population of over 1000:

place Residents
Miramar 118,614
Altamira 059,536
Cuauhtémoc 005,563
Carrillo Puerto 002,388
Esteros 002,230
Río Tamiahua 001,718
Ricardo Flores Magón 001,649
Maclovio Herrera 001,538
La Colonia 001,500
Lomas del Real 001,279
Nuevo Cereso Regional de Altamira 001,158
La Pedrera 001.104
Unidos Avanzamos 001.008

Sports

In terms of football, Altamira has so far almost always been in the shadow of the southern neighboring cities of Tampico and Madero, which were supported by the clubs CD Tampico (champions 1953), CF Madero and Tampico-Madero FC (the legal successor to CD Tampico was in the two seasons of the 1985 / 86 runners-up) were already represented several times in the first division of Mexico , Altamira FC, founded in 2001, was represented in the second division through promotion to the Liga de Ascenso in 2010/11 , while the figureheads of its southern neighboring cities only the third or fourth League belonged to. As of 2016, the tide has turned again.

Web links

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