Municipio Emiliano Zapata (Tabasco)
Emiliano Zapata | |
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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 |
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 | 3,377 |
Gregorio Méndez Magaña | 1,307 |
Chacama | 505 |
Nuevo Chablé | 407 |
Emiliano Zapata (Sección Pochote) | 360 |
Emiliano Zapata (Sección Jobal) | 344 |
La Isla | 288 |
Emiliano Zapata (Sección el Avispero) | 277 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Emiliano Zapata (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Emiliano Zapata (Spanish; PDF)