Municipio Amatenango de la Frontera

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Amatenango de la Frontera
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Amatenango de la Frontera
surface 254.5 km²
Residents 29,547 (2010)
density 116.1 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07006
politics
Presidente municipal Samuel Gómez Carbajal

Coordinates: 15 ° 26 ′  N , 92 ° 7 ′  W

Amatenango de la Frontera is a municipality in the southeast of the Mexican state Chiapas . It has about 30,000 inhabitants and is 254.4 km² in size. The administrative seat is the Amatenango de la Frontera of the same name , while the largest place in the municipality is El Pacayal .

The name Amatenango comes from Nahuatl and means fortification made of Amatl trees , the Spanish addition Frontera refers to the Mexican-Guatemalan border.

geography

The municipality Amatenango de la Frontera is located in the southeast of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 600  m and 2400  m . It lies entirely in the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana and entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is determined to 49% by sandstone - limonite with 43% limestone ; The predominant soil types are Phaeozem (32%), Acrisol (31%) and Regosol (18%). About 73% of the community area is forested, about 20% is used for agriculture.

The Municipio Amatenango de la Frontera borders the Municipios Frontera Comalapa , Bejucal de Ocampo , Mazapa de Madero and Bella Vista as well as Guatemala .

population

The 2010 census counted 29,547 people in 6,355 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 911 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , of which 586 were speakers of Mam and 236 speakers of Yakaltek . About 21 percent of the population was illiterate. 8,764 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 90% were men and 1% were unemployed. 39% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality Amatenango de la Frontera comprises 113 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and El Pacayal are classified as urban by the INEGI . Five of the towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 50 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
El Pacayal 3045
Potrerillo 2062
Nuevo Amatenango 1594
Guadalupe Victoria 1541
Nueva Morelia 1032
Veinte de Noviembre 0954
Río Guerrero 0939
Amatenango de la Frontera 0781

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