Municipio Emiliano Zapata (Tabasco)

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Emiliano Zapata
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Tabasco
Seat Emiliano Zapata
surface 594.2 km²
Residents 29,518 (2010)
density 49.7 inhabitants per km²
Website emilianozapatatabasco.gob.mx
INEGI no. 27007
politics
Presidente municipal Manuela del Pilar Ríos López
In the main town of Emiliano Zapata
In the main town of Emiliano Zapata

Coordinates: 17 ° 43 ′  N , 91 ° 40 ′  W

Emiliano Zapata is a municipality in the Mexican state of Tabasco . The municipality extends over an area of ​​594.2 km², in the 2010 census, 29,518 inhabitants were counted in the municipality. The administrative seat is Emiliano Zapata of the same name . The municipality and its main town are named after the revolutionary Emiliano Zapata .

geography

The Municipio Emiliano Zapata is located in the east of the state at an altitude of up to 300  m in the Subregión de los Ríos of the Región del Río Usumacinta . It is entirely part of the physiographic province of the southern coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico, about half of which belong to the coastal alluvial plains and half to the hill country with plains. The municipality drains completely into the Gulf of Mexico , almost two thirds via the Río Grijalva , a good third via the Río Usumacinta . The predominant sediment type is sandstone with 34.58% of the municipal area and over 40% alluvial soil . Soil type of more than 60% of the municipality is gleye . 45% of the municipality is used as pasture land, 22% is covered by forest and 15% is used as arable land.

The municipality of Emiliano Zapata borders the municipalities Jonuta , Balancán and Tenosique as well as the Mexican state of Chiapas to the south and west and Campeche to the north .

population

The 2010 census counted 29,518 people in 7,931 residential units in the municipality, making it one of the municipalities with the smallest population in the state. Less than one percent of them are speakers of an indigenous language , including 54 speakers of the Chol and 44 speakers of the Tzeltal language . A little over 7% of the population was illiterate. 48.75% of Emiliano Zapata's residents were registered as economically active, of which around 70% were men and 4% were unemployed. 12.5% ​​of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Emiliano Zapata comprises 65 localidades , of which only the main town and Chablé are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, nine towns had a population of over 250:

place Residents
Emiliano Zapata 20,030
Chablé 03,377
Gregorio Méndez Magaña 01,307
Chacama 00.505
Nuevo Chablé 00.407
Emiliano Zapata (Sección Pochote) 00.360
Emiliano Zapata (Sección Jobal) 00.344
La Isla 00.288
Emiliano Zapata (Sección el Avispero) 00.277

Web links

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