Municipio Cardenas (Tabasco)

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Cardenas
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Tabasco
Seat Cardenas
surface 2,055.6 km²
Residents 248,481 (2010)
density 120.9 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 27002
politics
Presidente municipal Rafael Acosta León
Parque Independencia in the city of Cardenas
Parque Independencia in the city of Cardenas

Coordinates: 18 ° 0 ′  N , 93 ° 24 ′  W

Cárdenas is a municipality in the Mexican state of Tabasco . The municipality extends over an area of ​​2055.6 km², the 2010 census counted 248,481 inhabitants in the municipality. The administrative seat is the homonymous Cárdenas . The municipality and its main town are named after the founder of the main town, José Eduardo de Cárdenas y Romero.

geography

The municipality of Cárdenas is located in the west of the state at altitudes below 100  m in the Subregión de Chontalpa of the Región del Río Grijalva . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the southern coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico. A good 93% of the municipality is in the basin of the Río Tonalá , the rest in the basin of the Carmen and Machona lagoons. Alluvions predominate in the municipal area , the predominant soil types are vertisol (53%) and gleye (23%). About 43% of the municipality is used as pasture land, about a quarter as arable land.

The municipality of Cárdenas borders the municipalities Paraíso , Comalcalco , Cunduacán and Huimanguillo and, through river borders, the Mexican states of Chiapas and Veracruz and the Gulf of Mexico .

population

The 2010 census counted 248,481 people in 59,591 residential units in the municipality, making it the municipality with the second largest population in the state. 1,021 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 201 Nahuatl speakers and 143 Zapotec speakers . Almost 7.4% of the population were illiterate. 84,545 residents of Cárdenas were registered as economically active, of which about 77% were men and 4.7% were unemployed. Just over twenty percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Cárdenas comprises 172 inhabited localidades , 21 of which are classified as urban by the INEGI . Four places had a population of over 5000 in the 2010 census, another 40 places had at least 1000 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Heroica Cárdenas 91,558
Coronel Andrés Sánchez Magallanes 06,913
Santa Rosalía ( Miguel Hidalgo 2da. Sección ) 05,528
Poblado C-28 Coronel Gregorio Méndez Magaña 05,492
Benito Juárez ( Campo Magallanes ) 04,581
Poblado C-09 Licenciado Francisco I. Madero 04,257
Poblado C-16 General Emiliano Zapata 04.233
Melchor Ocampo 03,821
Poblado C-10 General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río 03,447
Arroyo Hondo 1ra. Sección ( Santa Teresa A ) 03,343
Poblado C-22 Licenciado José María Pino Suárez 03,286
Poblado C-29 General Vicente Guerrero 03,057
Poblado C-20 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla 03,001
Azucena 2da. Sección 02,907
Poblado C-15 Adolfo López Mateos 02,877
Poblado C-33 20 de Noviembre 02,779
Poblado C-17 Independencia 02,708
Ingenio Presidente Benito Juarez 02,599
Poblado C-23 General Venustiano Carranza 02,579
Poblado C-11 José María Morelos y Pavón 02,547
Poblado C-27 Ingeniero Eduardo Chávez Ramírez 02,507
Poblado C-21 Licenciado Benito Juárez García 02,294
Santana 1ra. Sección A 02,294
Poblado C-14 General Plutarco Elías Calles 02,279
Ignacio Gutiérrez Gómez ( San Felipe ) 02.184

Web links

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