Municipio of Ixhuatán
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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 |
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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 | 534 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Ixhuatán (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Ixhuatán (Spanish; PDF)