Municipio Altamirano

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Altamirano
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Altamirano
surface 958.3 km²
Residents 29,865 (2010)
density 31.2 inhabitants per km²
Website altamirano.gob.mx/
INEGI no. 07004
politics
Presidente municipal Roberto Pinto Kanter

Coordinates: 16 ° 45 ′  N , 92 ° 0 ′  W

Altamirano is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas . The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is Altamirano of the same name . The municipality has almost 30,000 inhabitants and covers an area of ​​958.3 km².

The municipality got its name in honor of the poet Ignacio Manuel Altamirano .

geography

The municipality of Altamirano is located east of the center of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 200  m and 2100  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and is entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is 67% limestone with 22% sandstone - lutite ; the predominant soil types are Leptosol (44%) and Luvisol (35%). A good three quarters of the community area is forested.

The municipality of Altamirano borders the municipalities of Ocosingo , Las Margaritas , Oxchuc and Chanal .

population

The 2010 census counted 29,865 people in 5,265 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 16,244 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , 8,483 speakers of the Tzeltal language and 6,752 speakers of Tojolabal . A good 31 percent of the population were illiterate. 7,984 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 87% were men and 1.5% were unemployed. Two thirds of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Altamirano comprises 154 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three of the towns had a population of over 1000, 109 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Altamirano 9200
La Laguna 1222
Morelia ( Victórico Rodolfo Grajales ) 1156
Belisario Domínguez 0827
Puerto Rico 0826

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