Municipio Nicolás Ruiz
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Nicolás Ruiz |
surface | 29.6 km² |
Residents | 4317 (2010) |
density | 145.7 inhabitants per km² |
INEGI no. | 07058 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Amadeo López Mendez |
The Cerro La Lanza in the municipality of Nicolás Ruiz |
Coordinates: 16 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ N , 92 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W.
Nicolás Ruiz is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has a good 4,000 inhabitants and an area of 29.6 km². The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is Nicolás Ruiz of the same name .
The name honors Nicolás Ruiz Maldonado , a former governor of Chiapas.
geography
The municipality Nicolás Ruiz is located in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 500 m and 1000 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is 83% silty sandstone determined with 7% tuff , 6% conglomerate rock and 4% alluvion ; the predominant soil types are Luvisol (82%) and Phaeozem (18%). About 52% of the community area is used for arable farming, 23% is forested, 20% is pasture land.
The Municipio Nicolás Ruiz borders on the Municipios Totolapa and Venustiano Carranza .
population
In the 2010 census, 4317 people in 895 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 53 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 50 speakers of the Tzotzil . Almost 22 percent of the population was illiterate. 1247 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 92% were men and 10% were unemployed. A good 55% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Nicolás Ruiz comprises three inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI .
place | Residents |
Nicolás Ruiz | 4277 |
El Potrero | 39 |
Guapinol | 1 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Nicolás Ruiz (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Nicolás Ruiz (Spanish; PDF)