Municipio Francisco León

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Francisco León
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Rivera el Viejo Carmen
surface 210.8 km²
Residents 7000 (2010)
density 33.2 inhabitants per km²
founding 1915
INEGI no. 07033
politics
Presidente municipal Ana Caren Pablo Nañez

Coordinates: 17 ° 19 ′  N , 93 ° 15 ′  W

Francisco León is a municipality in the northwest of the Mexican state Chiapas . Today the municipality has about 7,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​210.8 km². The administrative seat is Rivera el Viejo Carmen (also Viejo Carmen Tonapac ), but the largest places in the municipality are San Miguel la Sardina and San José Maspac .

history

In the pre-Hispanic era the place was called Coalpitán , which means captive snakes in Nahuatl ; until 1934 the municipality was named Magdalenas Coalpitán . After the eruption of the El Chichón volcano in April 1982, in which the old capital Francisco León was destroyed, the municipality was evacuated and only rebuilt in June.

geography

The Municipio Francisco León is located in the northwest of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 100  m and 2700  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and lies entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is determined by 76% sandstone - lutite with 13% andesite - breccia and 9% limestone ; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (82%), Phaeozem (9%) and Acrisol (7%). About 56% of the community area is taken up by pastureland, 42% is forested.

The municipality of Francisco León borders on the municipalities of Ostuacán , Pichucalco , Chapultenango , Ocotepec , Copainalá and Tecpatán .

population

In the 2010 census, 7000 people in 1314 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 4,846 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 4,598 speakers of the Zoque . Over 23 percent of the population was illiterate. 1831 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 95% were men and 3% were unemployed. A good 40% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Francisco León comprises 38 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town, Rivera el Viejo Carmen, is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, five places had a population of over 500, 22 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
San Miguel la Sardina 1106
San Jose Maspac 0764
Vicente Guerrero 0678
Rivera el Viejo Carmen 0663

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