Municipio Mapastepec

Mapastepec
Symbols
	coat of arms
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Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Mapastepec
surface	1,223.9 km²
Residents	43,913 (2010)
density	35.9 inhabitants per km²
founding	1915
INEGI no.	07051
politics
Presidente municipal	Karla Erika Valdenegro Gamboa

15.433055555556 -92.897777777778Coordinates: 15 ° 26 ' N , 92 ° 54' W

Mapastepec is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . Mapastepec has about 44,000 inhabitants and an area of 1223.9 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the mapastepec of the same name .

The name Mapastepec comes from the Nahuatl (originally Mapachtepec ) and means "mountain of raccoons ". The municipality has a share in the biosphere reserves El Triunfo and La Encrucijada .

geography

The municipality of Mapastepec is located in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas between sea level and 2800 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana , lies partly in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and partly in the coastal plain. It is 96% in the hydrological region of Costa de Chiapas , the rest in the Grijalva - Usumacinta region . The geology of the municipality is determined by granite to over 47% with 43% alluvion ; the predominant soil types are Cambisol (36%), Regosol (22%) and Leptosol (20%). Not quite half of the municipal area is taken up by arable land, 42% is forested.

The municipality of Mapastepec borders the municipalities Acapetahua , Acacoyagua , Capitán Luis Ángel Vidal , Montecristo de Guerrero , Ángel Albino Corzo , La Concordia and Pijijiapan as well as the Pacific .

population

The 2010 census counted 43,913 people in 10,840 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 132 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 41 speakers of Zapotec . A good 16 percent of the population was illiterate. 15,442 residents were registered as economically active, of which a good 78% were men and 2.5% were unemployed. A good 33% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Mapastepec comprises 554 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Twelve places had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, 498 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Mapastepec	17,931
Sesecapa	02.143
Nuevo Milenio Valdivia	01,789
Generación 2000 Nuevo Milenio	00.935
La Alianza	00.806

Web links

Commons : Municipio Mapastepec - collection of images

Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Mapastepec (Spanish)
INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Mapastepec (Spanish; PDF)