Municipio Bella Vista
Bella Vista | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Bella Vista |
surface | 214.5 km² |
Residents | 19,281 (2010) |
density | 89.9 inhabitants per km² |
INEGI no. | 07011 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Hugo Octavio Morales Santizo |
Coordinates: 15 ° 35 ′ N , 92 ° 13 ′ W
Bella Vista is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality is located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas . It has about 19,000 inhabitants and is 214.5 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is Bella Vista .
The name of this place means “beautiful view” in Spanish.
geography
The municipality of Bella Vista is located in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 600 m and 2900 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana and lies entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is 87% limestone with 7% silty sandstone ; the predominant soil types are Luvisol (67%), Andosol (16%) and Phaeozem (11%). About 50% of the community area is used for arable farming, 28% is forested, 21% is used as pasture land.
The municipality Bella Vista borders the municipalities La Grandeza , Chicomuselo , Frontera Comalapa , Amatenango de la Frontera , Bejucal de Ocampo and Siltepec .
population
In the 2010 census, 19,281 people in 3,755 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 152 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , 89 of them speakers of the Mam . About 12 percent of the population were illiterate. 5520 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 93% were men or 1% were unemployed. A good 44% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Bella Vista comprises 80 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, six of the towns had a population of over 1000, and 35 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Bella Vista | 1672 |
Las Chicharras | 1324 |
Emiliano Zapata | 1232 |
San José las Chicharras | 1080 |
La Rinconada | 1078 |
Nuevo Pacayal | 1019 |
El Progreso | 965 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Bella Vista (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Bella Vista (Spanish; PDF)