Municipio Cacahoatán

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Cacahoatán
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Cacahoatán
surface 174.8 km²
Residents 43,811 (2010)
density 250.6 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07015
politics
Presidente municipal Julio César Calderón Sen.

Coordinates: 14 ° 59 ′  N , 92 ° 10 ′  W

Cacahoatán is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 44,000 inhabitants and is 174.8 km² in size. The largest town and administrative center is the eponymous Cacahoatán .

The name Cacahoatán comes from Nahuatl and means 'place of the peanuts'.

geography

The municipality of Cacahoatán is located in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 300  m and 4064  m ( Tacaná volcano ). It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana and lies entirely in the hydrological region of Costa de Chiapas . The geology of the municipality is determined by 48% andesite with 30% conglomerate rock and 19% granite ; The predominant soil types are Andosol (56%), Cambisol (30%) and Luvisol (12%). About 55% of the community area is used as pastureland, 37% is forested.

The municipality of Cacahoatán borders the municipalities of Tuxtla Chico , Unión Juárez and Tapachula and the Republic of Guatemala .

population

The 2010 census counted 43,811 people in 9,898 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 788 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , of which 723 were speakers of the Mam . A good 14 percent of the population was illiterate. 14,232 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 79% were men and 4.2% were unemployed. Over 23% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Cacahoatán comprises 101 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Salvador Urbina are classified as urban by the INEGI . Nine of the towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 58 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Cacahoatán 16,572
Salvador Urbina 02,555
Faja de Oro 02,356
Agustin de Iturbide 02.211
Unión Roja 01,829
Ahuacatlán 01,583
Mixcum 01,502
Benito Juarez 01,473
El Águila 01,274
Rosario Ixtal 00.839

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