Municipio Chapultenango

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Chapultenango
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Chapultenango
surface 182 km²
Residents 7332 (2010)
density 40.3 inhabitants per km²
founding 1944
INEGI no. 07025
politics
Presidente municipal Heydi Neydi Domínguez Pérez

Coordinates: 17 ° 20 ′  N , 93 ° 8 ′  W

Chapultenango is a municipality in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 7,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​182 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Chapultenango .

The name Chapultenango comes from Nahuatl and means “fortified place of the Chapulines ”.

geography

The municipality of Chapultenango is located in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 200  m and 1700  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 47% by sandstone - lutite with 39% limestone ; the predominant soil types are the Luvisol (80%) and Phaeozem (17%). About 50% of the community area is forested, 46% is pasture land.

The municipality of Chapultenango borders the municipalities of Pichucalco , Ixtacomitán , Solosuchiapa , Ixhuatán , Pantepec , Tapalapa , Ocotepec and Francisco León .

population

In the 2010 census, 7,332 people were counted in 1,487 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 5,317 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , 5073 of them speakers of the Zoque . Almost 20 percent of the population were illiterate. 2099 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which more than 88% were men or 4.4% were unemployed. A good 30% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Chapultenango comprises 28 inhabited localidades , of which the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Three of the places had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, 13 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Chapultenango 3129
Río Negro 0684
Guadalupe Victoria 0554

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