Municipio Benemérito de las Américas

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Benemérito de las Americas
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Benemérito de las Americas
surface 1,096.7 km²
Residents 17,282 (2010)
density 15.8 inhabitants per km²
founding July 28, 1999error
INEGI no. 07114
politics
Presidente municipal Juan Gomez Morales

Coordinates: 16 ° 31 ′  N , 90 ° 39 ′  W

Benemérito de las Américas is the easternmost municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality, founded in 1999, had 17,282 inhabitants in 2010 and is 1096.7 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is the Benemérito de las Américas of the same name .

The municipality and main town are named after an honorary title of the former Mexican President Benito Juárez .

geography

The municipality of Benemérito de las Américas is located in the far east of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 100  m and 300  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and is entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . 73% of the geology of the municipality is determined by alluvions , with 25% sandstone - lutite ; the predominant soil types are Gleysol (20%), Vertisol (19%) and Luvisol (16%). About 63% of the community area is forested, 32% is used as pastureland.

The Municipio Benemérito de las Américas borders on the Municipios Marqués de Comillas and Ocosingo and the Republic of Guatemala .

population

The 2010 census counted 17,282 people in 3,563 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 4,553 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , 1,912 speakers of the Tzeltal , 1309 speakers of the Chol and 500 speakers of the Zoque . About 21 percent of the population was illiterate. 5,037 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 88% were men and 1.7% were unemployed. Almost 35% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Benemérito de las Américas comprises 50 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Two of the places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 32 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Benemérito de las Americas 7259
Flor de Cacao 1655
Nuevo Orizaba 0971
Nuevo Veracruz 0786

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