Municipio Amatenango de la Frontera
Amatenango de la Frontera | |
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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 | 954 |
Río Guerrero | 939 |
Amatenango de la Frontera | 781 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Amatenango de la Frontera (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Amatenango de la Frontera (Spanish; PDF)