Municipio Hecelchakán
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Campeche | |
| Seat | Hecelchakan | |
| surface | 1,278.7 km² | |
| Residents | 28,306 (2010) | |
| density | 22.1 inhabitants per km² | |
| founding | January 1, 1916 | |
| Website | hecelchakan.gob.mx/ | |
| INEGI no. | 04005 | |
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| Presidente municipal | José Dolores Brito bad luck | |
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Coordinates: 20 ° 11 ′ N , 90 ° 8 ′ W
Hecelchakán is a municipality in the Mexican state of Campeche . The municipality has 28,306 inhabitants (2010 census) and is 1278.7 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is Hecelchakán of the same name .
history
During the Mexican Revolution , a battle between Mexican federal troops and Yucatec secessionists took place at the Hacienda Blanca Flor (now a hotel) in Hecelchakán in mid-March 1915 . Head of state Venustiano Carranza , who was involved in a civil war and therefore could not do without the income from the export of henequen and coffee from Yucatán , had sent an army division under Salvador Alvarado (1880-1924) to suppress the secession. After another victory of the federal troops in the Battle of Halacho (in the municipality of the same name in the state of Yucatán ) and their victorious entry into Merida on March 29, 1915, the secession was over after less than half a year.
geography
The municipality of Hecelchakán is located in the north of the Mexican state of Campeche at an altitude of less than 100 m . It is entirely part of the physiographic province of the Yucatán peninsula as well as a good 62% sub-province of the Yucatec Karst and almost 38% of the hill and karst country of Campeche. The geology of the municipality is 81% limestone , with over 12% lacustric deposits; The predominant soil type is the Leptosol (74%) with almost 10% Nitisol . The municipality lies entirely in the hydrographic region of Yucatán Norte . About 60 percent of the community area is forested.
The municipality of Hecelchakán borders the municipalities Calkiní , Hopelchén and Tenabo as well as the Gulf of Mexico .
population
In the 2010 census, 28,306 people were counted in 6,766 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 11,177 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 10,980 speakers of the Mayathan . Over eleven percent of the population was illiterate. 10,255 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which around 75% were men and 3% were unemployed. Almost 15% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Hecelchakán comprises 25 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Pomuch are classified as urban by the INEGI . Six towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, eleven towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
| place | Residents |
| Hecelchakan | 10,285 |
| Pomuch | 8,694 |
| Pocboc | 1,624 |
| Cumpich | 1,587 |
| Yalnón (Campo Menonita) | 1,151 |
| Santa Cruz | 1,118 |
| Dzitnup | 891 |
| Chunkanán | 885 |
| Nohalal | 522 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Hecelchakán (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Hecelchakán (Spanish; PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Alan Knight: The Mexican Revolution. Volume 2: Counter-revolution and Reconstruction. Cambridge University Press 1986 (Reprint 1990, University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln) ISBN 0-8032-7772-5 , pp. 247-251.
