Municipio Las Margaritas

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Las margaritas
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Las margaritas
surface 3,025.7 km²
Residents 111,484 (2010)
density 36.8 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07052
politics
Presidente municipal Jorge Luis Escandón Hernández
Country road scene in the municipality of Las Margaritas
Country road scene in the municipality of Las Margaritas

Coordinates: 16 ° 20 ′  N , 91 ° 55 ′  W

Las Margaritas is a municipality in the east of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality is located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas . The municipality has over 110,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​3,025.7 km². The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is Las Margaritas of the same name .

geography

The municipality of Las Margaritas is located in the east of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 100  m and 2600  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 77% limestone with 18% sandstone - lutite ; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (42%), Leptosol (35%) and Phaeozem (14%). About 67% of the community area is forested, 18% is used for pasture, 14% is used for arable farming.

The municipality of Las Margaritas borders the municipalities of La Trinitaria , La Independencia , Comitán de Domínguez , Chanal , Altamirano , Ocosingo and Maravilla Tenejapa as well as the Republic of Guatemala .

population

In the 2010 census, 111,484 people in 20,288 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 49,571 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 40,631 speakers from Tojolabal , 2,717 speakers from Tzotzil , 2,035 speakers from Kanjobal and 1,276 speakers from Tzeltal . Almost 26 percent of the population were illiterate. 34,264 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 86% were men and 1.2% were unemployed. Over 60% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Las Margaritas comprises 393 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Plan de Ayala are classified as urban by INEGI . In the 2010 census, 17 towns had a population of over 1000, and 209 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Las margaritas 20,786
Plan de Ayala 03.164
Veinte de Noviembre 02,207
Jalisco 01.915
Yasha 01,862
Chiapas 01,808
Nuevo San Juan Chamula ( El Pacayal ) 01,684
Bajucú 01,665
Francisco I. Madero 01,626
Justo Sierra ( San Francisco ) 01,386
El Edén 01,283
Saltillo 01,222
El Vergel 01,177
Rafael Ramírez 01,075
Veracruz 01,062
Lomantan 01,034
El Progreso 01.007
San Pedro Yutniotic 00.996
San Antonio los Montes 00.980

Web links

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