Municipio of Ixhuatán

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Ixhuatán
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Ixhuatán
surface 94.7 km²
Residents 10,239 (2010)
density 108.1 inhabitants per km²
founding 1944
INEGI no. 07042
politics
Presidente municipal Horacio Domínguez Castellanos

Coordinates: 17 ° 18 ′  N , 93 ° 1 ′  W

Ixhuatán is a municipality in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 10,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​94.7 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the homonymous Ixhuatán .

geography

The municipality of Ixhuatán is located in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 300  m and 2300  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 71% limestone with 27% sandstone - lutite , the predominant soil types are Luvisol (68%) and Leptosol (25%). About 46% of the community area is forested, 32% are used for arable farming, 22% are pasture land.

The municipality of Ixhuatán borders on the municipalities of Solosuchiapa , Amatán , Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán , Rincón Chamula San Pedro , Tapilula , Pantepec and Chapultenango .

population

The 2010 census counted 10,239 people in 2,107 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 3,788 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 2,906 speakers of the Tzotzil and 690 speakers of the Zoque . Over 22 percent of the population was illiterate. 3,176 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which just under 87% were men and 1.1% were unemployed. Almost 43% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Ixhuatán comprises 42 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three places had a population of over 1,000, 24 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Ixhuatán 3621
Ignacio Zaragoza 1222
Chapayal Grande 1112
Santa Anita 0534

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