Municipio Marqués de Comillas

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Marqués de Comillas
location
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
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

Location of the most important places in the Municipio Marqués de Comillas

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 0948

Web links

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