Municipio Chiapa de Corzo

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Chiapa de Corzo
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Chiapa de Corzo
surface 833.4 km²
Residents 87,306 (2010)
density 104.8 inhabitants per km²
Website www.chiapadecorzo.gob.mx/
INEGI no. 07027
politics
Presidente municipal Jorge Humberto Molina Gómez
Fuente Mudejar in Chiapa de Corzo
Fuente Mudejar in Chiapa de Corzo

Coordinates: 16 ° 42 ′  N , 93 ° 0 ′  W

Chiapa de Corzo is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 87,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​833.4 km². The administrative seat and largest city of the municipality is the Pueblo Mágico Chiapa de Corzo of the same name .

The part of the name Corzo in the community name honors the former governor Chiapas' Ángel Albino Corzo . The Tuxtla Gutierrez airport and part of the National Park Sumidero Canyon lie in the field of Municipalities, in turn, part of the Zona Metropolitana de Tuxtla Gutierrez is.

geography

The municipality of Chiapa de Corzo is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 200  m and 1800  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 by 42% limestone with 20% sandstone - lutite , 11.5% limestone lutite and a good 8% each of conglomerates , alluvios and silty sandstone; The predominant soil types are the Leptosol (41%), Regosol (32%) and Phaeozem (13%). About 43% of the community area is used for arable farming, 37% is forested, and 15% is used for pasture land.

The municipality of Chiapa de Corzo borders the municipalities of Soyaló , Ixtapa , Zinacantán , Acala , Emiliano Zapata , Venustiano Carranza , El Parral , Villaflores , Suchiapa , Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Osumacinta .

population

The 2010 census counted 87,603 people in 21,305 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 3,391 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , 2,109 speakers of the Tzotzil and 713 speakers of the Zoque . A good 14 percent of the population was illiterate. 33,810 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 74% were men and 2.8% were unemployed. Almost 23% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Chiapa de Corzo comprises 284 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Jardines del Grijalva are classified as urban by the INEGI . 14 of the towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 225 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Chiapa de Corzo 45,077
Jardines del Grijalva 02,881
Julián Grajales 02,394
Salvador Urbina 01,653
Las Flechas 01,579
Galecio Narcía 01,553
El Palmar ( San Gabriel ) 01,477
Juan del Grijalva 01,428
Ignacio Allende 01,396
Venustiano Carranza 01,301
Narciso Mendoza 01,193
Nicolás Bravo 01,184
America Libre 01,073
Nuevo Carmen Tonapac 01.010
El Horizonte 00.998
Ribera de Monte Rico ( Nacamucuyi ) 00.991

Web links

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