Municipio La Concordia (Chiapas)

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La Concordia
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat La Concordia
surface 2,580.7 km²
Residents 44,082 (2010)
density 17.1 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07020
politics
Presidente municipal José Miguel Córdova García

Coordinates: 16 ° 7 ′  N , 92 ° 41 ′  W

La Concordia is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 44,000 inhabitants and is 2580.7 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is La Concordia of the same name .

Part of the reservoir of the La Angostura dam and the El Triunfo biosphere reserve are located in the municipality .

geography

The municipality of La Concordia is located in the central south of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 400  m 2600  m . 81% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana and 19% to the Sierra Madre de Chiapas ; a good 99% are in the hydrological region Grijalva - Usumacinta , around 0.8% are counted on the Costa de Chiapas . The geology of the municipality is 34% granite with 28% silty sandstone , 17% limestone and 9% alluvion ; The predominant soil types are Leptosol (42%), Acrisol (21%), Regosol (10%) and Cambisol (9%). About 55% of the community area is forested, 21% is used for arable farming, 18% is used for pasture land.

The municipality of La Concordia borders the municipality of Venustiano Carranza , Socoltenango , Chicomuselo , Ángel Albino Corzo , Mapastepec , Pijijiapan and Villa Corzo .

population

In the 2010 census, 44,082 people in 9,891 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 2,765 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 1,446 speakers from Tzotzil and 974 speakers from Tzeltal . Over 23 percent of the population was illiterate. 14,637 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which just under 88% were men and 2.2% were unemployed. A good 38% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of La Concordia comprises 484 inhabited localidades , of which the main town as well as Benito Juárez and El Ámbar are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 13 towns had a population of over 1000, 442 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
La Concordia 7641
Benito Juarez 2715
El Ámbar ( El Ámbar de Echeverría ) 2592
La Tigrilla 2346
Diamante de Echeverría 2157
Dolores Jaltenango 2090
Independencia 1953
Plan de Agua Prieta 1752
Rizo de Oro 1434
Reforma 1148
Ignacio Zaragoza 1127
El Ramal ( Porvenir ) 1054
Nueva Libertad 1005
Nuevo Resplandor 0927
Guadalupe Victoria 0851
Niños Héroes 0805

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