Municipio El Bosque
El Bosque | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | El Bosque |
surface | 159.7 km² |
Residents | 18,559 (2010) |
density | 116.2 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1915 |
INEGI no. | 07014 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Aurelia Sánchez López |
Mountain in the municipality of El Bosque |
Coordinates: 17 ° 4 ′ N , 92 ° 43 ′ W
El Bosque is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 18,500 inhabitants and is 159.7 km² in size. The largest place of the municipality and administrative seat is the El Bosque of the same name .
From its foundation in 1915 to 1934, the municipality was called San Juan Bautista .
geography
The municipality of El Bosque is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 300 m and 2000 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 51% sandstone - lutite with 48% limestone ; The predominant soil types are the Phaeozem (55%) and Planosol (44%). About 69% of the community area is forested, 17% is used for arable farming, 14% is pasture land.
The municipality of El Bosque borders the municipalities of Simojovel , Chalchihuitán , Larráinzar , Bochil and Jitotol .
population
The 2010 census counted 18,559 people in 3,617 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 15,864 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 14,878 speakers of the Tzotzil . Almost 30 percent of the population were illiterate. 4,717 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 93% were men or 0.55% were unemployed. Over 63% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio El Bosque comprises 51 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Four towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 25 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
El Bosque | 5155 |
Plátanos | 1992 |
San Pedro Non-Alucum | 1881 |
San Cayetano | 1833 |
Álvaro Obregón | 867 |
Khabajebal | 746 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio El Bosque (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio El Bosque (Spanish; PDF)