Municipio Escuintla

Escuintla
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Escuintla
surface	418.4 km²
Residents	30,068 (2010)
density	71.9 inhabitants per km²
founding	1915
INEGI no.	07032
politics
Presidente municipal	Ever Daniel Velázquez Javalois
	Landscape near Escuintla

15.32997 -92.63002Coordinates: 15 ° 20 ′ N , 92 ° 38 ′ W

Escuintla is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 30,000 inhabitants and an area of 418.4 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Escuintla of the same name .

The name Escuintla comes from Nahuatl and means "place of the dogs".

geography

The Municipio Escuintla is located in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas between sea level and 2700 m in the Soconusco region . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana and is almost entirely in the hydrological region of Costa de Chiapas , 0.05% is in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is 69% granite with 10% alluvion and 9% tonalite ; The predominant soil types are Acrisol (31%), Regosol (24%), Leptosol (18%) and Cambisol (12%). About 47% of the community area is forested, 40% is used for pasture land, 12% is used for agriculture.

The municipality of Escuintla borders on the municipalities of Capitán Luis Ángel Vidal , Siltepec , Motozintla , Huixtla , Villa Comaltitlán , Acapetahua and Acacoyagua .

population

The 2010 census counted 30,068 people in 6,851 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 394 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 320 speakers of the Mam . Almost 15 percent of the population were illiterate. 9,537 residents were registered as economically active, of which 81% were men and 3.5% were unemployed. Almost 34% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Escuintla comprises 195 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and El Triunfo are classified as urban by INEGI . In the 2010 census, three towns had a population of over 1000, 132 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Escuintla	9570
El Triunfo	2719
San Felipe Tizapa	1087
La Independencia	0957
Cintalapa	0895
Unión Jamaica	0758

Web links

Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Escuintla (Spanish)
INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Escuintla (Spanish; PDF)