Municipio Amatán

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Amatan
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Amatan
surface 317 km²
Residents 21,275 (2010)
density 67.1 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07005
politics
Presidente municipal Manuel de Jesús Carpio Mayorga

Coordinates: 17 ° 22 ′  N , 92 ° 49 ′  W

Amatán is a municipality in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality is located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas . The municipality has about 21,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​317 km². The administrative seat and largest town is Amatán of the same name .

The name Amatán comes from Nahuatl and means place of the Amatl trees .

geography

The Municipio Amatán is located in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights of up to 2000  m . It lies entirely in the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is determined by 50% sandstone - lutite with 48% limestone ; the predominant soil type is Luvisol (76%). About 42% of the community area is forested, about 37% is used as pasture and 16% is used for arable farming.

The municipality of Amatán borders the municipalities of Huitiupán , Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán , Ixhuatán , Solosuchiapa , and Ixtapangajoya as well as the state of Tabasco .

population

The 2010 census counted 21,275 people in 4,294 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 6,976 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , of which 3,373 speakers of the Tzeltal language and 2,794 speakers of the Zoque . A good 26 percent of the population was illiterate. 5,998 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 95% were men or 1.75% were unemployed. 54% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Amatán comprises 123 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Two of the places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 72 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Amatan 3947
Reforma y Planada 1156
San Antonio Tres Picos 0929
El Calvario 0851

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