Municipio Motozintla

Motozintla
Symbols
	coat of arms
	coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Motozintla de Mendoza
surface	586.4 km²
Residents	69,119 (2010)
density	117.9 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no.	07057
politics
Presidente municipal	Jorge Luis Villatoro Osorio
	View of Motozintla de Mendoza

15.370833333333 -92.248333333333Coordinates: 15 ° 22 ′ N , 92 ° 15 ′ W

Motozintla is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has 69,119 inhabitants and an area of 586.4 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is Motozintla de Mendoza .

The name Motozintla comes from Nahuatl and means "slope of the squirrels".

geography

The municipality of Motozintla is located in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 300 m and 3100 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana and is 81% in the hydrological region of Costa de Chiapas and 19% in the Grijalva - Usumacinta region . The geology of the municipality is determined by 49% granite with 27% metamorphic and 21% andesite ; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (37%), Regosol (28%), Cambisol and Acrisol (17% each). About 50% of the community area is forested, 35% is used for arable farming, and almost 15% is pasture land.

The municipality of Motozintla borders the municipalities Tapachula , Tuzantán , Huixtla , Escuintla , Siltepec , El Porvenir and Mazapa de Madero as well as the Republic of Guatemala .

population

In the 2010 census, 69,119 people were counted in 13,782 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 755 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 565 speakers of the Mam . A good 12 percent of the population were illiterate. 21,797 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 83% were men and 2.3% were unemployed. Almost 35% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Motozintla comprises 368 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 18 towns had a population of over 500, 224 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Motozintla de Mendoza	23,755
Belisario Domínguez	02.011
Niquivil	00.774
Benito Juarez	00.766

Web links

Commons : Motozintla - collection of images

Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Motozintla (Spanish)
INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Motozintla (Spanish; PDF)