Municipio Las Rosas

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Las Rosas
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Las Rosas
surface 235.6 km²
Residents 25,530 (2010)
density 108.4 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07075
politics
Presidente municipal Rodolfo Rigoberto Robles Díaz
San Miguel Temple in the center of Las Rosas
San Miguel Temple in the center of Las Rosas

Coordinates: 16 ° 22 ′  N , 92 ° 22 ′  W

Las Rosas is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 25,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​235.6 km². The administrative center and largest town in the municipality is Las Rosas of the same name .

geography

The municipality of Las Rosas is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at altitudes between 700  m and 2400  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 to over 99% by limestone ; the predominant soil types are Leptosol (50%), Vertisol (26%) and Luvisol (23%). About 57% of the community area is taken up by arable land, 37% is forested.

The Municipio Las Rosas borders the Municipios Amatenango del Valle , Comitán de Domínguez , Socoltenango and Venustiano Carranza .

population

The 2010 census counted 25,530 people in 5,904 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 1,346 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 1,084 speakers from the Tzeltal and 212 speakers from the Tzotzil . Almost 28 percent of the population were illiterate. 9,481 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 77% were men or 2.5% were unemployed. About 44% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Las Rosas comprises 106 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Four towns had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, 87 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Las Rosas 18,817
Corral Hierba 00.664
Zacualpa 00.617
Ixtapilla 00.600

Web links

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