Municipio Ixtapa

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Ixtapa
location
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Ixtapa
surface 280 km²
Residents 24,517 (2010)
density 87.6 inhabitants per km²
founding 1915
INEGI no. 07044
politics
Presidente municipal Roberto Jordán Aguilar Pavón

Coordinates: 16 ° 48 ′  N , 92 ° 54 ′  W

Ixtapa is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 24,500 inhabitants and an area of ​​280 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Ixtapa .

The name Ixtapa comes from Nahuatl and means “place of salted water”.

geography

The municipality of Ixtapa is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at altitudes between 700  m and 2100  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 to 44% by sandstone - conglomerate with 29% sandstone- lutite and 23% limestone , the predominant soil types are the Regosol (58%), Leptosol (21%), Luvisol (12%) and Phaeozem (9%) ). About 68% of the community area is forested, 21% is used for agriculture, 11% is used for pasture land.

The municipality of Ixtapa and borders with the municipalities of Soyaló , Bochil , Larráinzar , Chamula , Zinacantán and Chiapa de Corzo .

population

In the 2010 census, 24,517 people in 4,965 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 4,971 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 4,690 speakers of the Tzotzil . Over 18 percent of the population was illiterate. 7,631 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which just under 88% were men and 1.9% were unemployed. A good 45% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Ixtapa comprises 67 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, six towns had a population of over 1000, 36 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Ixtapa 6086
El Nopal 1903
Cacate 1225
Aztlán ( Rancho Nuevo ) 1148
Concepción 1133
El Zapotillo 1058
Chigtón 0960
Nuevo San Miguel Mitontic ( Punta de Piedad ) 0887
Modelo ( El Zapotal ) 0884

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