Municipio Huitiupán

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Huitiupan
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Huitiupan
surface 340.2 km²
Residents 22,536 (2010)
density 66.2 inhabitants per km²
founding 1918
INEGI no. 07039
politics
Presidente municipal Claudio Eleazar Zenteno Montejo

Coordinates: 17 ° 10 ′  N , 92 ° 41 ′  W

Huitiupán is a municipality in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 22,500 inhabitants and an area of ​​340.2 km². The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is Huitiupán of the same name .

The name Huitiupán comes from Nahuatl and means "place of the great temple".

geography

The municipality of Huitiupán is located in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 100  m and 1900  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 53% granite with 36% sandstone - lutite and 8% sandstone, the predominant soil types are Luvisol (78%) and Leptosol (21%). About 56% of the community area is forested, 35% is used for pasture land, 9% is used for agriculture.

The municipality of Huitiupán borders the municipalities Sabanilla , Simojovel , Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán and Amatán as well as the state of Tabasco .

population

The 2010 census counted 22,536 people in 4,555 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 13,016 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 7,535 speakers of the Tzotzil and 4,837 speakers of the Chol . Over 27 percent of the population was illiterate. 6,432 residents were registered as economically active, of which a good 95% were men or 2.2% were unemployed. Almost 60% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Huitiupán comprises 87 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Four towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 35 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Huitiupan 2857
Zacatonal de Juarez 1361
La Competencia 1147
José María Morelos y Pavón 1143
Sombra Carrizal 0911
Huanal 0886
El Azufre 0868

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