Municipio Marqués de Comillas
Marqués de Comillas | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Zamora Pico de Oro |
surface | 912.4 km² |
Residents | 9856 (2010) |
density | 10.8 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1999 |
INEGI no. | 07116 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Manuel Justo Gómez Beltrán |
The Río Lacantún , border with the Municipio Ocosingo |
Coordinates: 16 ° 16 ′ N , 90 ° 39 ′ W
Marqués de Comillas is a municipality in the east of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has 9,856 inhabitants and an area of 912.4 km². The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is Zamora Pico de Oro .
geography
The Municipio Marqués de Comillas is located in the east of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 100 m and 300 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 49% by alluvion with 48% sandstone - lutite ; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (41%), Gleysol (20%), Umbrisol (14%) and Vertisol (12%). Almost three quarters of the community area is forested, almost a quarter is used as pastureland.
The Municipio Marqués de Comillas borders the Municipios Maravilla Tenejapa , Ocosingo and Benemérito de las Américas as well as the Republic of Guatemala .
population
The 2010 census counted 9,856 people in 1901 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 4051 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 1687 speakers of the Tzeltal , 755 speakers of the Chol , 581 speakers of the Tzotzil and 484 speakers of the Zoque . A good 24 percent of the population was illiterate. 2768 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 91% were men or 1.2% were unemployed. A good 48% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Marqués de Comillas comprises 28 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Five places had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, three places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Zamora Pico de Oro | 1734 |
Emiliano Zapata | 1082 |
Quiringuicharo | 948 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Marqués de Comillas (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Marqués de Comillas (Spanish; PDF)