Municipio Frontera Comalapa

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Frontera Comalapa
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Frontera Comalapa
surface 767.1 km²
Residents 67,012 (2010)
density 87.4 inhabitants per km²
founding 1943
INEGI no. 07034
politics
Presidente municipal Óscar Armando Ramírez Aguilar

Coordinates: 15 ° 39 ′  N , 92 ° 9 ′  W

Frontera Comalapa is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has almost 67,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​767.1 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Frontera Comalapa .

geography

The municipality of Frontera Comalapa is located in the southern part of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 400  m and 1700  m . 82 percent of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and 18% to the Cordillera Centroamericana and lies entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is 66% limestone with 20% alluvion ; The predominant soil types are the Phaeozem (36%), Leptosol (34%) and Vertisol (18%). About 41% of the community area is taken up by pastureland, 31% is used for agriculture, 27% is forested.

The municipality of Frontera Comalapa borders the municipalities of La Trinitaria , Socoltenango , Chicomuselo , Bella Vista and Amatenango de la Frontera as well as the Republic of Guatemala .

population

The 2010 census counted 67,012 people in 15,430 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 990 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 455 speakers of the Mam and 266 speakers of the Kanjobal . Over 13 percent of the population was illiterate. 22,482 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 83% were men and 2.5% were unemployed. 33% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Frontera Comalapa comprises 222 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Paso Hondo are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 16 towns had a population of over 1000, 150 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Frontera Comalapa 18,704
Paso Hondo 03,654
Ciudad Cuauhtémoc 02,325
Verapaz 02,237
Doctor Rodulfo Figueroa ( Tierra Blanca ) 02,218
Nueva Independencia ( Lajerío ) 02,001
Sabinalito 01,808
Joaquín Miguel Gutiérrez ( Quespala ) 01,701
San Caralampio 01,604
Agua Zarca 01,495
Nueva Libertad 01,329
El Triunfo de las Tres Maravillas 01,300
Monte Redondo 01,183
Guadalupe Grijalva 01,034
Sinaloa 01,020
El Portal 01.002

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