Municipio Comitán de Domínguez

Comitán de Domínguez
Symbols
	coat of arms
	coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Comitán de Domínguez
surface	981.2 km²
Residents	141,013 (2010)
density	143.7 inhabitants per km²
founding	1915
Website	comitan.gob.mx
INEGI no.	07019
politics
Presidente municipal	Emmanuel Cordero Sánchez
	Comitán de Domínguez

16.243611111111 -92.123611111111Coordinates: 16 ° 15 ′ N , 92 ° 7 ′ W

Comitán de Domínguez is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality is located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas . The municipality, founded in 1915, has around 141,000 inhabitants today and covers 981.2 km². The administrative seat and largest city in the municipality is the Pueblo Mágico Comitán de Domínguez of the same name .

The name Comitán comes from Nahuatl and means “place of the ceramists”, the part of the name Domínguez honors Belisario Domínguez Palencia , a Mexican liberal politician.

The Maya site of Tenam Puente is located in the municipality .

geography

The Municipio Comitán de Domínguez is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at an altitude of between 600 m and 2700 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 84% by limestone with 9% silty sandstone ; The predominant soil types are Leptosol (62%), Luvisol and Vertisol (each approx. 12%). About 51% of the community area is forested, 40% is used for agriculture.

The Municipio Comitán de Domínguez borders on the Municipios Amatenango del Valle , Chanal , Las Margaritas , La Independencia , La Trinitaria , Tzimol , Socoltenango and Las Rosas .

population

In the 2010 census, 141,013 people in 34,139 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 5,569 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 2,545 speakers from Tojolabal and 1,872 speakers from Tzeltal . A good 13 percent of the population was illiterate. 5,161 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 86% were men and 2.3% were unemployed. Over 16% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Comitán de Domínguez comprises 268 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, eleven towns had a population of over 1000, 188 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Comitán de Domínguez	97,537
Villahermosa Yalumá	02,368
San Jose Yocnajab	01,809
La Floresta	01,743
Los Riegos	01,740
Francisco Sarabia	01,673
Cash	01,429
Señor del Pozo	01,353
Zaragoza la Montaña	01,263
Efraín A. Gutiérrez	01,153
Chacaljocom	01,056

Web links

Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Comitán de Domínguez (Spanish)
INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Comitán de Domínguez (Spanish; PDF)