Municipio of Ixtapangajoya

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Ixtapangajoya
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Ixtapangajoya
surface 107.6 km²
Residents 5478 (2010)
density 50.9 inhabitants per km²
founding 1944
INEGI no. 07045
politics
Presidente municipal Susana Isidro Cadena

Coordinates: 17 ° 30 ′  N , 93 ° 0 ′  W

Ixtapangajoya is a municipality in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 5,500 inhabitants and an area of ​​107.6 km². The administrative seat of the municipality is Ixtapangajoya of the same name , while its largest town is La Gloria .

The name Ixtapangajoya comes from Nahuatl and means “place of salty water”.

geography

The municipality of Ixtapangajoya is located in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas at an altitude of less than 900  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 70% by sandstone - lutite with 21% limestone , the predominant soil type is Luvisol (99.7%). About 72% of the community area is taken up by pastureland. 20% are forested, 7% are used for agriculture.

The municipality of Ixtapangajoya borders the municipalities Amatán , Solosuchiapa , Ixtacomitán and Pichucalco, as well as the state of Tabasco .

population

The 2010 census counted 5,478 people in 1180 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 793 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 683 speakers of the Tzotzil . Almost 22 percent of the population was illiterate. 1690 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 89% were men and 6.9% were unemployed. A good 43% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Ixtapangajoya comprises 21 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three towns had a population of over 500, eight towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
La Gloria 1478
Ixtapangajoya 1272
Lázaro Cárdenas 0703

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