Municipio Chanal

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Chanal
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Chanal
surface 408.1 km²
Residents 10,817 (2010)
density 26.5 inhabitants per km²
founding 1934, 1935 (again)error
INEGI no. 07024
politics
Presidente municipal Alejandra Isabel Martínez Ara

Coordinates: 16 ° 39 ′  N , 92 ° 13 ′  W

Chanal is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 10,800 inhabitants and an area of ​​408.1 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Chanal of the same name .

The name of the community means "wise one who teaches".

geography

The Municipio Chanal is located in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas at altitudes between 1100  m and 2800  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 92% by limestone ; the predominant soil type is Luvisol (89%). About 64% of the community area is forested, 21% is used for pasture land, 14% is used for arable farming.

The Municipio Chanal borders on the Municipios Huixtán , Las Margaritas , Oxchuc , Altamirano , Amatenango del Valle , San Cristóbal de las Casas and Comitán de Domínguez .

population

The 2010 census counted 10,817 people in 1,773 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 9,638 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , 8,841 of them from the Tzeltal . A good 34 percent of the population was illiterate. 2,715 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of whom over 78% were men or 0.07% were unemployed. Almost 70% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Chanal comprises 16 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Four of the towns had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, five towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Chanal 7008
Siberia 0954
Natiltón 0685
Tzajalnich 0550

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