Municipio Chicoasén

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Chicoasén
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Chicoasén
surface 115.7 km²
Residents 5018 (2010)
density 43.4 inhabitants per km²
founding 1947
INEGI no. 07029
politics
Presidente municipal Fernando Madrid Ramírez

Coordinates: 16 ° 58 ′  N , 93 ° 6 ′  W

Chicoasén is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 5000 inhabitants and an area of ​​116 km². The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is the Chicoasén of the same name .

The name Chicoasén goes back to the Nahuatl name Chicoasentepek , in English 'six places' or 'six hills'.

The Manuel M. Torres Dam lies on the border with the Municipio Osumacinta .

geography

The municipality of Chicoasén is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 100  m and 1300  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 72% sandstone - lutite with 28% limestone ; The predominant soil types are the Leptosol (59%) and Regosol (28%). About 93% of the community area is forested.

The municipality of Chicoasén borders on the municipalities of Bochil , Copainalá , Soyaló , Coapilla , Osumacinta and San Fernando .

population

In the 2010 census, 5018 people in 1261 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 400 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 359 speakers of the Tzotzil . Over 13 percent of the population was illiterate. 1675 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 86% were men or 5.9% were unemployed. A good 23% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Chicoasén comprises 19 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three of the towns had a population of over 200, twelve towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Chicoasén 3343
Las Pilas 0297
CM 31-E (Juy Juy) 0267

Web links

Commons : Chicoasén  - collection of images