Municipio Palenque

Palenque
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Palenque
surface	2,897.4 km²
Residents	110,918 (2010)
density	38.3 inhabitants per km²
founding	1915
Website	palenque.gob.mx
INEGI no.	07065
politics
Presidente municipal	Carlos Morelos Rodríguez
	Landscape in the municipality of Palenque

17.5 -91.9Coordinates: 17 ° 30 ′ N , 91 ° 54 ′ W

Palenque is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 111,000 inhabitants and an area of 2897 km². The administrative seat and largest place in the municipality is Palenque of the same name .

The archaeological site of Palenque and the Palenque National Park are located in the municipality of Palenque.

geography

The municipality of Palenque is located in the northeast of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights of up to 900 m . 53% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and 47% to the southern coastal plains of the Gulf of Mexico and lies entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is determined by 37% limestone with 36% sandstone and 16% sandstone lutite ; The predominant soil types are Leptosol (23%), Luvisol (21%), Cambisol (16%), Gleysol (15%), Regosol (13%) and Phaeozem (12%). About 55% of the municipal area is pasture land, 39% is forested.

The municipality of Palenque borders the municipalities Catazajá , La Libertad , Chilón , Ocosingo and Salto de Agua as well as the state of Tabasco and the Republic of Guatemala .

population

The 2010 census counted 110,918 people in 25,263 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 45,412 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 29,432 speakers from the Chol and 13,164 speakers from the Tzeltal . Almost 19 percent of the population were illiterate. 36,146 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 80% were men and 1.7% were unemployed. 38.5% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Palenque comprises 694 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, six of the towns had a population of over 1,000, and 525 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Palenque	42,947
Río Chancalá	02.156
Doctor Samuel León Brindis	01,320
Agua Blanca Serranía	01,263
Arimatea	01,251
Professor Roberto Barrios	01,173
Bajadas Grandes	00.991

Web links

Commons : Municipio Palenque - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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