Municipio Mazatán (Chiapas)
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Country | Mexico | |
State | Chiapas | |
Seat | Mazatan | |
surface | 384 km² | |
Residents | 26,573 (2010) | |
density | 69.2 inhabitants per km² | |
founding | 1942 | |
INEGI no. | 07054 | |
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Presidente municipal | Gilberto Barrientos Coyotzi | |
Barra San José in the municipality of Mazatán |
Coordinates: 14 ° 52 ′ N , 92 ° 27 ′ W
Mazatán is a municipality in the southwest of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has 26,573 inhabitants and an area of 384 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is Mazatán of the same name .
The name Mazatán comes from the Nahuatl and means "place where there is a lot of game". The municipality has a share in the La Encrucijada biosphere reserve .
geography
The municipality of Mazatán is located in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas in the Soconusco region at an altitude of less than 100 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana and lies entirely in the hydrological region of Costa de Chiapas . The geology of the municipality is 66% determined by alluvions with 19% lacustric deposits; the predominant soil types are Phaeozem (65%), Gleysol (16%) and Solonchak (12%). About 57% of the community area is used for arable farming, 30% is occupied by wetland.
The municipality of Mazatán borders the municipalities of Huixtla , Huehuetán and Tapachula as well as the Pacific .
population
The 2010 census counted 26,573 people in 6,905 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 101 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . A good 15 percent of the population was illiterate. 9,360 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which almost 80% were men and 1.6% were unemployed. Over 28% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Mazatán comprises 129 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Buenos Aires are classified as urban by the INEGI . Four towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 94 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Mazatan | 6838 |
Buenos Aires | 4260 |
Marte R. Gomez | 1263 |
Aquiles Serdán | 1135 |
Guanaca Valley | 966 |
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines | 849 |
San Jose de los Llanos | 815 |
San José El Hueyate ( Barra de San José ) | 756 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Mazatán (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Mazatán (Spanish; PDF)