Municipio Mazapa de Madero
Mazapa de Madero | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Mazapa de Madero |
surface | 110.7 km² |
Residents | 7793 (2010) |
density | 70.4 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1920 |
Website | mazapademaderochiapas.gob.mx |
INEGI no. | 07053 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Adin Alfredo Jacob Roblero |
Coordinates: 15 ° 23 ′ N , 92 ° 11 ′ W
Mazapa de Madero is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has 7,793 inhabitants and an area of 110.7 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Mazapa de Madero of the same name .
The name Mazapa comes from Nahuatl and means river of cattle . The nickname Madero , which has been used since 1929, honors the Mexican statesman Francisco Madero .
geography
The Municipio Mazapa de Madero is located in the southeast of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 900 m and 2900 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana and is almost entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta , 0.11% of the municipal area belongs to the Costa de Chiapas region . The geology of the municipality is determined to 42% by metamorphic rocks with 24% silty sandstone , 17% andesite and 9% granite ; the predominant soil types are Regosol (54%) and Cambisol (41%). About 70% of the community area is forested, 19% is used for arable farming, and a good 10% is used as pasture land.
The Municipio Mazapa de Madero borders the Municipios Motozintla , El Porvenir , Bejucal de Ocampo and Amatenango de la Frontera, as well as the Republic of Guatemala .
population
In the 2010 census, 7793 people in 1461 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 148 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 99 speakers of the Mam . A good 12 percent of the population were illiterate. 2307 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 87% were men or 2.7% were unemployed. Almost 39% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Mazapa de Madero comprises 50 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Two places had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, 25 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Mazapa de Madero | 1580 |
Granados Talcanaque | 681 |
Libertad Frontera | 413 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Mazapa de Madero (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Mazapa de Madero (Spanish; PDF)