Municipio Jiquipilas

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Jiquipilas
location
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 0935

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