Municipio Bejucal de Ocampo

Bejucal de Ocampo
Symbols
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Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Bejucal de Ocampo
surface	79 km²
Residents	7623 (2010)
density	96.5 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no.	07010
politics
Presidente municipal	Miriam Avelar Santizo

15.45 -92.166666666667Coordinates: 15 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ N , 92 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W.

Bejucal de Ocampo is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality is located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas . The municipality has about 7,600 inhabitants and is 79 km² in size. The administrative seat is the Bejucal de Ocampo of the same name , while the largest town in the municipality is Ojo de Agua Centro .

The name Bejucal comes from Nahuatl and means 'excess of lianas '. The nickname Ocampo is dedicated to the Mexican politician Melchor Ocampo .

geography

The municipality of Bejucal de Ocampo is located in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas at altitudes between 700 m and 2900 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 by 76% limestone with 24% silty sandstone ; The predominant soil types are Andosol (62%) and Regosol (32%). About 63% of the community area is used as pastureland, almost 35% is forested.

The Municipio Bejucal de Ocampo borders the Municipios Bella Vista , Amatenango de la Frontera , Mazapa de Madero , La Grandeza and El Porvenir .

population

In the 2010 census, 7623 people were counted in 1321 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 85 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 81 speakers of the Mam . About 13 percent of the population was illiterate. 2188 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 92% were men or 1.6% were unemployed. Almost 52% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Bejucal de Ocampo comprises 34 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town Bejucal de Ocampo (315 inhabitants) is classified as urban by the INEGI . Five of the places had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, eleven places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Ojo de Agua Centro	896
Reforma	730
Ojo de Agua Grande	609

Web links

Commons : Municipio Bejucal de Ocampo - Collection of images

Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Bejucal de Ocampo (Spanish)
INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Bejucal de Ocampo (Spanish; PDF)