Municipio Chamula

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Chamula
location
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Chamula
surface 345.7 km²
Residents 76,941 (2010)
density 222.6 inhabitants per km²
founding 1925
INEGI no. 07023
politics
Presidente municipal Ponciano Gómez Gómez
Landscape around the cemetery of San Juan Chamula
Landscape around the cemetery of San Juan Chamula

Coordinates: 16 ° 47 '  N , 92 ° 41'  W

Chamula is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 77,000 inhabitants and covers 345.7 km². The largest place of the municipality and administrative seat is the Chamula of the same name (3,329 inhabitants, also San Juan Chamula ).

geography

The municipality of Chamula is located in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas at altitudes between 1200  m and 3000  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 to 69% by limestone with about 11% each of tuff and sandstone - lutite ; the predominant soil types are Luvisol (57%), Alisol (17%), Phaeozem (13%) and Leptosol (12%). About 53% of the community area is forested, 47% is used for arable farming.

The municipality borders on the municipalities Larráinzar , Aldama , Chenalhó , Mitontic , Tenejapa , San Cristóbal de las Casas , Zinacantán and Ixtapa .

population

The 2010 census counted 76,941 people in 16,083 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 69,475 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , 65,177 of them speakers of the Tzotzil . More than 42 percent of the population was illiterate. 25,029 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which just under 69% were men or 2.2% were unemployed. Almost 70% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality Chamula comprises 144 inhabited localidades , of which the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 19 towns had a population of over 1000, 16 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Chamula 3329
Cruztón 1756
Yaltem 1664
Chicumtantic 1599
Nichnamtic 1496
Muquén 1480
Majomut 1450
Saclamantón 1348
Catishtic 1319
Romerillo 1310
Cuchulumtic 1275
Narváez 1207
Bautista Chico 1173
Las Ollas 1165
Macvilho 1142
Tentic 1121
Arvenza Uno 1107
Pugchén Mumuntic 1046
Tzontehuitz 1004
Epalchén 0985

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Commons : Chamula  - collection of images