Municipio Candelaria (Campeche)

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Candelaria
location
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Campeche
Seat Candelaria
surface 5,687.6 km²
Residents 41,194 (2010)
density 7.24 inhabitants per km²
founding 1998
Website www.candelaria.gob.mx
INEGI no. 04011
politics
Presidente municipal Salvador Farías González
The Candelaria train station
The Candelaria train station

Coordinates: 18 ° 0 ′  N , 90 ° 45 ′  W

Candelaria is a municipality in the Mexican state of Campeche . The municipality has 41,194 inhabitants (2010 census) and is 5688 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is the Candelaria of the same name .

The municipality of Candelaria includes the archaeological site of Itzamkanac .

geography

The municipality of Candelaria is located in the south of the Mexican state of Campeche at heights of up to just over 200  m . A good 65% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Yucatán peninsula and just under 35% to the southern coastal plain of the Gulf , over 99% to the hydrographic region Grijalva - Usumacinta and a good 0.4% to the Yucatán Oeste region . The geology of the municipality is determined by alluvion (55% of the municipality area) and limestone (40% of the municipality area); the predominant soil types are Vertisol (42%), Leptosol (30%) and Phaeozem (16%). More than 60% of the community area is forested, around 28% is pasture.

The municipality of Candelaria borders on the municipalities of Calakmul , Escárcega and Carmen, as well as the state of Tabasco .

population

The 2010 census counted 41,194 people in 10,298 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 2,329 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 1,532 speakers from the Chol and 245 speakers from the Tzeltal . Over 15 percent of the population was illiterate. 14,019 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 84% were men and 1.4% were unemployed. A good 31% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Candelaria comprises 653 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three towns had a population of over 1000, 572 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Candelaria 9,812
Benito Juarez Uno 1,281
El Naranjo 1,065
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla 0.938
El Desengaño 0.938
Miguel Alemán 0.886
Pejelagarto 0.805
Nueva Rosita 0.731
Las Golondrinas 0.712

Web links

Commons : Municipio Candelaria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files