Municipio Chiapilla
Chiapilla | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Chiapilla |
surface | 51.6 km² |
Residents | 5405 (2010) |
density | 104.8 inhabitants per km² |
INEGI no. | 07028 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Jorge Octavio de León Vázquez |
Coordinates: 16 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ N , 92 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ W.
Chiapilla is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 5400 inhabitants and an area of 51.6 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Chiapilla of the same name .
geography
The municipality of Chiapilla is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 300 m and 800 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 62% by silty sandstone with 18% limestone - lutite and 13% alluvion ; The predominant soil types are the Phaeozem (49%), Leptosol (25%) and Luvisol (17%). About 92% of the community area is used for agriculture.
The municipality of Chiapilla borders on the municipalities of Acala , San Lucas and Totolapa .
population
In the 2010 census, 5405 people in 1347 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 200 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 191 speakers of the Tzotzil . A good 26 percent of the population was illiterate. 2034 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 83% were men or 0.9% were unemployed. A good 35% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Chiapilla comprises seven inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Two of the places had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, three places had fewer than 10 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Chiapilla | 3809 |
Lázaro Cárdenas | 877 |
Doctor Manuel Velasco Suarez | 453 |
El Carmen | 255 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Chiapilla (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Chiapilla (Spanish; PDF)