Municipio Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc
Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Veracruz |
Seat | Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc |
surface | 18.8 km² |
Residents | 6750 (2010) |
density | 359.4 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1859 |
INEGI no. | 30074 |
Coordinates: 18 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ N , 97 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ W.
Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz . The municipality covers an area of 18.8 km². In 2010, Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc had a population of 6750 inhabitants. The administrative seat and most populous village of the municipality is the Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc of the same name .
geography
The municipality of Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc is located in the center of the state of Veracruz in the Las Montañas region at an altitude between 1200 m and 2500 m . It is located in the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre del Sur and drains into the Gulf of Mexico via the Río Papaloapan . Geologically, the municipality consists of 73% limestone and 14% alluvion . The soil type of 74% of the municipality is the Luvisol , followed by 13% Vertisol . About three quarters of the area of the municipality is forested, about 10% of the area is used for agriculture or is occupied by settlements.
The municipality of Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc borders the municipalities of Río Blanco , Orizaba , Rafael Delgado , Camerino Z. Mendoza and Nogales .
population
The 2010 census counted 6750 people in 1729 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 182 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , of which 174 were Nahuatl speakers . About eight percent of the population was illiterate. 2557 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 68% were men or 6.7% were unemployed. Almost ten percent of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc comprises five inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI .
place | Residents |
Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc | 4125 |
San Cristobal | 1482 |
Donato Guerra | 627 |
Paredón Viejo | 508 |
Potrerillo | 8th |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc (Spanish; PDF)