Municipio Copainalá

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Copainalá
location
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 ) 0959

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