Municipio Jiquipilas
Jiquipilas | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Jiquipilas |
surface | 1,305.7 km² |
Residents | 37,818 (2010) |
density | 29 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1940 |
INEGI no. | 07046 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Carlos Manuel Calvo Martínez |
Coordinates: 16 ° 40 ′ N , 93 ° 39 ′ W
Jiquipilas is a municipality in the west of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 38,000 inhabitants and an area of 1305.7 km². The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is the Jiquipilas of the same name .
The name Jiquipilas comes from Nahuatl and means "place of saddlebags".
geography
The municipality of Jiquipilas is located in the west of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 300 m and 2000 m . 84.5% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana and 15.5% to the Sierra Madre de Chiapas ; 99.6% of it is in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta , the rest is on the Costa de Chiapas . The geology of the municipality is 63% granite with 19% alluvion , 10% limestone and 8% silty sandstone ; The predominant soil types are Regosol (31%), Leptosol (25%), Luvisol (14%) and Vertisol (13%). A good half of the community area is forested, 43% are used for agriculture.
The municipality of Jiquipilas borders the municipalities of Cintalapa , Ocozocoautla de Espinosa , Villaflores and Arriaga .
population
The 2010 census counted 37,818 people in 9626 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 2005 were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 1,742 speakers of the Tzotzil . A good 13 percent of the population was illiterate. 13,002 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 84% were men or 1.5% were unemployed. A good 21% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Jiquipilas comprises 376 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Tierra y Libertad are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, nine towns had a population of over 1000, while 339 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Jiquipilas | 9894 |
Tierra y Libertad | 2600 |
José María Pino Suárez | 2091 |
Tiltepec | 2007 |
Vicente Guerrero | 1383 |
Cuauhtémoc | 1300 |
Julián Grajales | 1293 |
Quintana Roo | 1243 |
Nueva Palestina | 1116 |
Baja California | 935 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Jiquipilas (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Jiquipilas (Spanish; PDF)