Municipio Copainalá
Copainalá | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Copainalá |
surface | 347.6 km² |
Residents | 21,050 (2010) |
density | 60.6 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1915 |
INEGI no. | 07021 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Adeldamar Santos Juarez |
Coordinates: 17 ° 5 ′ N , 93 ° 12 ′ W
Copainalá is a municipality in the northwest of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 21,000 inhabitants and an area of 347.6 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Copainalá (6,550 inhabitants).
The name Copainalá , originally Koa-Painal-Lan , comes from Nahuatl and means "place of running snakes".
geography
The municipality of Copainalá is located in the northwest of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 100 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 68% limestone with 26% sandstone - lutite ; the predominant soil types are the Luvisol (43%), Phaeozem (39%) and Leptosol (17%). About 62% of the community area is forested, 20% is pasture land, 16% is used for arable farming.
The municipality of Copainalá borders on the municipalities of Francisco León , Ocotepec , Coapilla , Chicoásen , San Fernando , Berriozábal and Tecpatán .
population
In the 2010 census, 21,050 people in 5,224 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 1,681 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 854 speakers of the Zoque and 708 speakers of the Tzotzil . Almost 15 percent of the population were illiterate. 7,025 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 81% were men and 2.1% were unemployed. Over 22% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Copainalá comprises 110 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three places had a population of over 1000, 75 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Copainalá | 6550 |
Ángel Albino Corzo ( Guadalupe ) | 1469 |
Benito Juarez | 1153 |
Miguel Hidalgo ( Zacalapa ) | 959 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Copainalá (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Copainalá (Spanish; PDF)