Municipio Huixtán

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Huixtán
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Huixtán
surface 311.8 km²
Residents 21,507 (2010)
density 69 inhabitants per km²
founding 1922
INEGI no. 07038
politics
Presidente municipal Javier Sebastián Jiménez Sántiz
Huixtán
Huixtán

Coordinates: 16 ° 43 ′  N , 92 ° 27 ′  W

Huixtán is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 21,500 inhabitants and an area of ​​311.8 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Huixtán of the same name .

The name of the community comes from Nahuatl and means "place where there are many thorns".

geography

The municipality of Huixtán is located in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas at altitudes between 1500  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 50% silty sandstone with 44% limestone and 6% sandstone lutite , the predominant soil types are Luvisol (62%), Alisol (18%) and Leptosol (11%). About 70% of the community area is used for arable farming, 26% is forested.

The municipality of Huixtán borders the municipalities of Tenejapa , Oxchuc , Chanal , San Cristóbal de las Casas and Teopisca .

population

In the 2010 census, 21,507 people in 3,944 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 18,611 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 11,131 speakers from Tzotzil and 6,337 speakers from Tzeltal . A good 27 percent of the population was illiterate. 6,751 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 76% were men or 1.2% were unemployed. A good 60% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Huixtán comprises 61 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, 18 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Huixtán 1716
Los Pozos 1436
Lázaro Cárdenas ( Chilil ) 1177
Carmen Yalchuch 1124
San Pedro Pedernal 0942
San Andrés Puerto Rico 0925
San Gregorio de las Casas 0920

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