Municipio Coapilla

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Coapilla
location
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Coapilla
surface 155.5 km²
Residents 8444 (2010)
density 54.3 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07018
politics
Presidente municipal Charito Pérez Pérez

Coordinates: 17 ° 8 ′  N , 93 ° 10 ′  W

Coapilla is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 8,400 inhabitants and is 155.5 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest town is the Coapilla of the same name .

The name Coapilla comes from Nahuatl and means "crown of a hill".

geography

The Municipio Coapilla is located northwest of the center of the Mexican state Chiapas. 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 49% limestone with 26% andesite - breccia and 25% sandstone - lutite ; The predominant soil types are the Phaeozem (46%), Luvisol (33%) and Leptosol (21%). About 85% of the community area is forested, 12% is pasture land.

The municipality of Coapilla borders on the municipalities of Ocotepec , Tapalapa , Pantepec , Bochil , Chicoasén and Copainalá .

population

In the 2010 census, 8444 people were counted in 1971 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 1,193 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 1,043 speakers of the Tzotzil . A good 20 percent of the population was illiterate. 2,688 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 86% were men or 0.6% were unemployed. 47% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Coapilla comprises 33 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Two of the places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 22 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Coapilla 3187
Buenavista ( Matasanos ) 1198
José María Morelos y Pavón 0894
Llano Grande 0686
Vicente Guerrero 0617

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