Municipio Ocosingo

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Ocosingo
location
Symbols
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Ocosingo
surface 9,520.1 km²
Residents 198,877 (2010)
density 20.9 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07059
politics
Presidente municipal Jesús Alberto Oropeza Nájera
Ocosingo
Ocosingo

Coordinates: 16 ° 54 '  N , 92 ° 6'  W

Ocosingo is the largest municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . It is located in the eastern part of the state and is home to parts of the Montañas del Oriente and the Selva Lacandona . The name Ocosingo comes from Nahuatl and means "place of the black man".

Pyramid in Toniná

The municipality has almost 200,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​9520.1 km². The administrative seat and largest city of the municipality is the eponymous Ocosingo . In the municipality of Ocosingo are the archaeological sites of Yaxchilán , Bonampak and Toniná , as well as several nature reserves. Ocosingo is the stronghold of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation , an indigenous guerrilla organization in Chiapas.

geography

The Río Jataté in the municipality of Ocosingo

The municipality of Ocosingo is located in the east of the Mexican state Chiapas at an altitude of less than 2000  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 determined by 62% limestone with 25% sandstone - lutite , 8% silty sandstone and 4% alluvion ; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (28%), Leptosol (26%), Phaeozem (18%), Cambisol (10%) and Umbrisol (5%). About 83% of the community area is forested, 13% is pasture land.

The municipality of Ocosingo borders the municipalities of Palenque , Chilón , San Juan Cancuc , Oxchuc , Altamirano , Las Margaritas , Maravilla Tenejapa , Marqués de Comillas and Benemérito de las Américas, and the Republic of Guatemala . The Usumacinta River forms the border with Guatemala.

population

The 2010 census counted 198,877 people in 33,378 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 133,811 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 114,171 speakers from Tzeltal , 7,732 speakers from Chol , 1,529 speakers from Tzotzil , 990 speakers from Zoque and 849 speakers from Mayathan . Almost 28 percent of the population were illiterate. 50,581 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 86% were men and 1.4% were unemployed. Almost 60% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Ocosingo comprises 1114 inhabited localidades , of which the main town as well as Nueva Palestina, Frontera Corozal, Tenango and Abasolo are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 30 towns had at least 1000 inhabitants, 831 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Ocosingo 41,878
Nueva Palestina 10,588
Frontera Corozal 05,184
Tenango 04,436
Abasolo 02,884
Damasco 02,380
Taniperla 02,106
San Quintin 01,732
Cristóbal Colón 01,623
Santo Domingo 01,584
Cintalapa 01,571
Perla de Acapulco 01,527
Santa Elena 01,508
El Censo 01,500

Web links

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