Municipio Berriozábal

Berriozábal
Symbols
	coat of arms
	coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Berriozábal
surface	353.2 km²
Residents	43,179 (2010)
density	122.3 inhabitants per km²
Website	berriozabal.gob.mx
INEGI no.	07012
politics
Presidente municipal	Joaquín Zebadúa Alva

16.8 -93.266666666667Coordinates: 16 ° 48 ′ N , 93 ° 16 ′ W

Berriozábal is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . It has about 43,000 inhabitants and an area of 353.2 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the city of the same name Berriozábal .

The name is dedicated to the liberalist Felipe Berriozábal . The municipality is part of the Zona Metropolitana de Tuxtla Gutiérrez .

geography

The municipality of Berriozábal is located in the west of the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 100 m and 1300 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and is entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is determined by 51% limestone - lutite with 25% sandstone - lutite and 24% limestone; The predominant soil types are Leptosol (38%), Alisol (24%) and Luvisol (18%). About 52% of the community area is forested, 33% is used as pasture land and 13% is used for agriculture.

The municipality of Berriozábal borders the municipalities of Tecpatán , Copainalá , Tuxtla Gutiérrez , San Fernando and Ocozocoautla de Espinosa .

population

In the 2010 census, 43,179 people in 9,242 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 1,590 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , of which 1,257 were Tzotzil speakers . About 17 percent of the population was illiterate. 15,565 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which almost 77% were men and 2.3% were unemployed. A good 29% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Berriozábal comprises 306 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Four of the places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 275 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Berriozábal	28,128
Santa Inés Buenavista	01,559
Ignacio Zaragoza	01,354
Las Maravillas	01,339
Ciudad Maya	00.715

Web links

Commons : Municipio Berriozábal - collection of images

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