Municipio Altamira
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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 | 59,536 |
Cuauhtémoc | 5,563 |
Carrillo Puerto | 2,388 |
Esteros | 2,230 |
Río Tamiahua | 1,718 |
Ricardo Flores Magón | 1,649 |
Maclovio Herrera | 1,538 |
La Colonia | 1,500 |
Lomas del Real | 1,279 |
Nuevo Cereso Regional de Altamira | 1,158 |
La Pedrera | 1.104 |
Unidos Avanzamos | 1.008 |
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
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Altamira (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Altamira (Spanish; PDF)
- List of localities in the Municipio Altamira (Spanish)