Municipio La Trinitaria

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La Trinitaria
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat La Trinitaria
surface 1,608.4 km²
Residents 72,769 (2010)
density 45.2 inhabitants per km²
Website latrinitaria.gob.mx
INEGI no. 07099
politics
Presidente municipal Ervin Leonel Pérez Alfaro
Landscape in the municipality of La Trinitaria
Landscape in the municipality of La Trinitaria

Coordinates: 16 ° 7 ′  N , 92 ° 2 ′  W

La Trinitaria is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 73,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​1608.4 km². The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is La Trinitaria of the same name .

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

geography

The municipality of La Trinitaria is located in the southeast of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 400  m and 1900  m . It is almost entirely part of 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 determined by 61% limestone with 17% limestone lutite and 14% alluvion ; the predominant soil types are Phaeozem (27%), Luvisol (24%), Leptosol (23%) and Vertisol (16%). About 47% of the community area is forested, a good 29% is used by arable land, 22% is used as pasture land.

The municipality of La Trinitaria borders the municipalities Frontera Comalapa , Socoltenango , Tzimol , Comitán de Domínguez , La Independencia and Las Margaritas as well as the Republic of Guatemala .

population

In the 2010 census, 72,769 people in 16,723 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 6,759 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 2,543 speakers of Kanjobal , 1,798 speakers of Awakatec and 1,014 speakers of Chuj . A good 18 percent of the population was illiterate. 24,256 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 90.5% were men and 0.6% were unemployed. A good 37% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of La Trinitaria comprises 415 inhabited localidades , of which the main town as well as Lázaro Cárdenas, José María Morelos and La Esperanza are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 16 towns had a population of over 1000, 308 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
La Trinitaria 9042
Lázaro Cárdenas 3699
José María Morelos 2601
La Esperanza 2549
El Porvenir Agrarista 2468
Miguel Hidalgo 2428
Rodulfo Figueroa 2321
Las Delicias 2121
La Gloria 1874
Álvaro Obregón 1790
Tziscao 1562
El Progreso 1399
Santa Rita 1389
Nueva Libertad ( El Colorado ) 1182
Chihuahua 1088
Unión Juarez 1050
Carmen Xhan 0982

Web links

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