Municipio Pantelhó

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Pantelhó
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Pantelhó
surface 193.2 km²
Residents 20,589 (2010)
density 106.6 inhabitants per km²
founding 1915
INEGI no. 07066
politics
Presidente municipal Santos López Hernández

Coordinates: 17 ° 0 ′  N , 92 ° 28 ′  W

Pantelhó is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 20,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​193.2 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Pantelhó .

geography

The municipality of Pantelhó is located in the north-central part of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 300  m and 2200  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and lies entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is determined by 47% sandstone - lutite with 34% sandstone and 19% limestone ; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (77%), Planosol (19%) and Leptosol (4%). About 45% of the community area is forested, 32% is used for arable farming, 23% is used for pasture land.

The municipality of Pantelhó borders the municipalities of Simojovel , Yajalón , Chilón , Sitalá , San Juan Cancuc , Chenalhó and Chalchihuitán .

population

In the 2010 census, 20,589 people were counted in 3,692 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 16,716 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 8,536 speakers from Tzeltal and 6,860 speakers from Tzotzil . Over 43 percent of the population was illiterate. 5,161 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 91% were men or 2% were unemployed. A good 70% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Pantelhó comprises 118 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Four places had at least 500 inhabitants, 79 places less than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Pantelhó 6888
Aurora Esquipulas 2046
Aquiles Serdán ( Santa Lucía ) 0825
El Roblar Chishtontic 0528

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