Municipio Mazapa de Madero

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Mazapa de Madero
location
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 0681
Libertad Frontera 0413

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