Municipio Cuautinchán

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Cuautinchán
location
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Puebla
Seat Cuautinchán
surface 160.8 km²
Residents 9538 (2010)
density 59.3 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 21040
politics
Presidente municipal Amelio Flores Sánchez
View of the main square of Cuautinchán from the former Franciscan convent
View of the main square of Cuautinchán from the former Franciscan convent

Coordinates: 18 ° 57 ′  N , 98 ° 1 ′  W

Cuautinchán is a municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla . The municipality covers an area of ​​160.8 km². In 2010, Cuautinchán had a population of 9538 inhabitants. The administrative seat, but not the most populous place of the municipality, is Cuautinchán of the same name .

geography

The municipality Cuautinchán is centrally located in the state of Puebla about 30 km east of its capital, Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza in the V region at an altitude between 2000  m and 2560  m . It is entirely part of the Physiographic Province of the Sierra Volcánica Transversal . The municipality drains completely over the Río Atoyac into the Pacific . The predominant rock types are the igneous extrusive rocks tuff (26%) and basalt (25%) with 16% sedimentary rock and 12% alluvial soil . Soil type of 54% of the municipality is the Leptosol , followed by 23% Durisol and 19% Phaeozem . More than half of the community area is used for arable farming, almost 10% is covered by forest.

The municipality of Cuautinchán borders on the municipalities Tepeaca , Acajete , Amozoc , Puebla , Tzicatlacoyan and Tecali de Herrera and thus on the Zona Metropolitana de Puebla-Tlaxcala .

population

In the 2010 census, 9538 people were counted in 2163 residential units in the municipality. A good one percent of them are speakers of an indigenous language , including 65 Nahuatl and 21 Totonak speakers . A little over 11% of the population was illiterate. 3288 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 76% were men or 6.5% were unemployed. A good 26% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Cuautinchán comprises 36 localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Six towns had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census:

place Residents
San Jerónimo Almoloya 2482
Cuautinchán 2454
Torija 1076
Concepción Pardiñas 0840
Alpatláhuac 0748
Santa Cruz Alpuyeca 0579

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Commons : Cuautinchán  - collection of images