Municipio Bella Vista

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Bella Vista
location
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 0965

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