Municipio Arriaga

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Arriaga
location
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Arriaga
surface 810.5 km²
Residents 40,042 (2010)
density 49.4 inhabitants per km²
founding 1910
Website www.arriaga.chiapas.gob.mx
INEGI no. 07009
politics
Presidente municipal David Parada Vazquez
Church of the Sacred Heart, Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico.jpg

Coordinates: 16 ° 14 ′  N , 93 ° 54 ′  W

Arriaga is a municipality in the west of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality is on the edge of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas .

The name is dedicated to the politician Ponciano Arriaga . The municipality has about 40,000 inhabitants (INEGI 2010 census) and is 810.5 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is the Arriaga of the same name .

geography

The municipality of Arriaga is located in the west of the Mexican state Chiapas between sea level and an altitude of 1400  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 51% granite with 35% alluvion ; the predominant soil types are Regosol (48%), Cambisol (21%) and Phaeozem (16%). About 40% of the community area is forested, about 43% is pasture land.

The municipality of Arriaga borders on the municipalities of Cintalapa , Jiquipilas , Villaflores and Tonalá, as well as the state of Oaxaca .

population

The 2010 census counted 40,042 people in 11,275 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 247 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , 153 of them being Zapotec speakers . About twelve percent of the population was illiterate. 15,869 residents were registered as economically active, of which around 70% were men and 2.4% were unemployed. Almost 18% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Arriaga comprises 257 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Emiliano Zapata are classified as urban by INEGI . Six of the towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 238 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Arriaga 24,447
Emiliano Zapata 03,353
Azteca ( La Punta ) 01,829
La Gloria 01,801
La Linea 01,452
Lázaro Cárdenas 01,172
Punta Flor 00.931
Nicolás Bravo ( El Hondo ) 00.838

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