Municipio Osumacinta

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Osumacinta
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Osumacinta
surface 92.6 km²
Residents 3792 (2010)
density 40.9 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07063
politics
Presidente municipal Samuel Alegría Pérez

Coordinates: 16 ° 53 '  N , 93 ° 5'  W

Osumacinta is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . It has about 3,800 inhabitants and an area of ​​92.6 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Osumacinta of the same name .

The name Osumacinta comes from the Nahuatl and means "slope of the monkeys".

The Manuel-M.-Torres dam lies on the border with the municipality of Chicoasén . The lake dammed by it is located in the municipality of Osumacinta as well as part of the Cañón del Sumidero National Park .

geography

The municipality of Osumacinta is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 100  m and 1700  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and is entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is 57% sandstone - lutite with 38% limestone ; the predominant soil types are Regosol (57%) and Leptosol (39%). About 63% of the community area is forested, 17% is used as pasture land, and 15% is water.

The municipality of Osumacinta borders the municipalities of Soyaló , Chicoasén , Tuxtla Gutiérrez , San Fernando and Chiapa de Corzo .

population

In the 2010 census, 3792 people in 919 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 354 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 309 speakers of the Tzotzil . A good ten percent of the population was illiterate. 1298 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 81% were men and 3.9% were unemployed. 30% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Osumacinta comprises 13 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . The original place Osumacinta was buried in the 1970s by the dammed Río Grijalva and rebuilt elsewhere. In the 2010 census, three towns had a population of over 500, eight towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Osumacinta 2023
Triunfo Agrarista 0651
Libertad Campesina 0580

Web links

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