Municipio Jitotol
Jitotol | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Jitotol |
surface | 236.4 km² |
Residents | 18,683 (2010) |
density | 79 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1915 |
INEGI no. | 07047 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Martha Angélica Molina Ruiz |
Coordinates: 17 ° 4 ′ N , 92 ° 52 ′ W
Jitotol is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 18,000 inhabitants and an area of 236.4 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is Jitotol of the same name .
The name Jitotol comes from Xitoltepeque , which means "place of the heavenly language / tongue" in Nahuatl .
geography
The municipality of Jitotol is located in the north-central part of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 500 m and 2400 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 53% limestone with 47% sandstone - lutite ; the predominant soil types are the Luvisol (31%), Phaeozem (26%), Planosol (23%) and Leptosol (20%). About 75% of the community area is forested, 24% is pasture land.
The municipality of Jitotol borders the municipalities of Rincón Chamula San Pedro , Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán , San Andrés Duraznal , Simojovel , El Bosque , Bochil , Pantepec and Rayón .
population
The 2010 census counted 18,683 people in 3,820 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 12,339 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 8,382 speakers of the Tzotzil and 3,006 speakers of the Zoque . A good 22 percent of the population was illiterate. 5,014 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 90% were men and 0.9% were unemployed. Over 64% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality Jitotol comprises 50 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, five towns had a population of over 1000, 24 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Jitotol | 4427 |
Carmen Zacatal | 2579 |
Las Maravillas | 2105 |
Cálido | 1189 |
El Ámbar | 1157 |
Unión Zaragoza | 652 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Jitotol (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Jitotol (Spanish; PDF)