Municipio La Independencia

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La Independencia
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat La Independencia
surface 516.1 km²
Residents 41,266 (2010)
density 80 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07041
politics
Presidente municipal Olegario López Vázquez

Coordinates: 16 ° 13 ′  N , 91 ° 50 ′  W

La Independencia is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 41,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​516.1 km². The administrative center is La Independencia of the same name , while the largest towns in the municipality are El Triunfo and Venustiano Carranza .

The name of this place comes from Spanish and means "independence".

The municipality has a share in the Lagunas de Montebello National Park .

geography

The municipality of La Independencia is located in the southeast of the Mexican state Chiapas at altitudes between 700  m and 1900  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and is entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is determined by 76% limestone with 17% alluvion and 5% silty sandstone ; The predominant soil types are Leptosol (26%), Luvisol (20%), Phaeozem (18%), Acrisol (15%) and Chernozem (13%). About 61% of the community area is forested, a good 25% is used by arable land, and 12% is used as pasture land.

The municipality of La Independencia borders the municipalities of Las Margaritas , La Trinitaria and Comitán de Domínguez .

population

The 2010 census counted 41,266 people in 9,046 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 1,796 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 811 speakers of the Chuj , 383 speakers of the Kanjobal and 202 speakers of the Tojolabal . A good 16.5 percent of the population was illiterate. 13,829 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 92.5% were men and 1.2% were unemployed. A good 49% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of La Independencia comprises 112 inhabited localidades , of which the main town as well as El Triunfo and Venustiano Carranza are classified as urban by the INEGI . Ten towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 57 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
El Triunfo 5,478
Venustiano Carranza 5,081
La Independencia 3,041
San Antonio Buenavista 1,887
La Patria 1,616
Francisco Sarabia 1,499
Río Blanco 1,433
Buenavista 1,403
Emiliano Zapata 1,234
Ojo de Agua 1,119
Galeana 0.865
San Isidro el Zapotal 0.848

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