Municipio Ocozocoautla de Espinosa

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Ocozocoautla de Espinosa
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Ocozocoautla de Espinosa
surface 2,102.5 km²
Residents 82,059 (2010)
density 39 inhabitants per km²
founding 1915
INEGI no. 07061
politics
Presidente municipal Alfonso Estrada Pérez
San Bernabé Chapel in Ocozocoautla de Espinosa
San Bernabé Chapel in Ocozocoautla de Espinosa

Coordinates: 16 ° 46 ′  N , 93 ° 22 ′  W

Ocozocoautla de Espinosa is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 82,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​2102.5 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Ocozocoautla de Espinosa .

The name Ocozocoautla comes from Nahuatl and means 'Ocozote Forest' (Ocozote is a type of textile), the addition Espinosa honors the revolutionary Luis Espinosa .

Parts of the municipality form the Selva El Ocote biosphere reserve . In the north, the municipality has a share of the Nezahualcóyotl reservoir .

geography

The municipality of Ocozocoautla de Espinosa is located in the west of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 100  m and 1800  m . 96% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and four percent to the Cordillera Centroamericana ; it is entirely located in the Grijalva - Usumacinta hydrological region . The geology of the municipality is determined by 65% limestone with 15% sandstone - lutite , 8% limestone-lutite, 6% granite and 5% alluvion ; the predominant soil types are Luvisol (41%), Leptosol (36%) and Alisol (7%). About 58% of the community area is forested, 25% is used for pasture land, 10% is used for arable farming.

The municipality of Ocozocoautla de Espinosa borders the municipalities of Mezcalapa , Tecpatán , Berriozábal , Tuxtla Gutiérrez , Suchiapa , Villaflores , Jiquipilas and Cintalapa .

population

The 2010 census counted 82,059 people in 18,156 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 13,260 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 12,134 speakers of the Tzotzil . Almost 16 percent of the population were illiterate. 28,821 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which almost 80% were men and 1.2% were unemployed. Over 37% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Ocozocoautla de Espinosa comprises 708 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Ocuilapa de Juárez are classified as urban by the INEGI . Eight towns had at least 1000 inhabitants, 628 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Ocozocoautla de Espinosa 39,180
Ocuilapa de Juarez 03,921
Vicente Guerrero ( Matamoros ) 02,009
Guadalupe Victoria 01,876
Ignacio Zaragoza ( El Morro ) 01,675
La Independencia ( Las Pilas ) 01,178
Hermenegildo Galeana 01,068
Alfonso Moguel 01,022
CNC 00.940

Web links

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