Municipio Pantepec (Chiapas)
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Pantepec |
surface | 106 km² |
Residents | 10,870 (2010) |
density | 102.5 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1915 |
INEGI no. | 07067 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Martha Araceli Zea Mendoza |
Coordinates: 17 ° 11 ′ N , 93 ° 3 ′ W
Pantepec is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 11,000 inhabitants and an area of 106 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Pantepec .
The name comes from Nahuatl and means "put on mountain".
geography
The municipality Pantepec is located in the northwest of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 800 m and 2500 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 64% limestone with 30% andesite - breccia ; the predominant soil types are Phaeozem (40%), Leptosol and Luvisol (30% each). About 65% of the community area is forested, 32% is taken up by pastureland.
The municipality Pantepec borders on the municipalities Chapultenango , Ixhuatán , Tapilula , Rayón , Jitotol , Bochil , Coapilla and Tapalapa .
population
In the 2010 census, 10,870 people in 2,364 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 4,548 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 4,183 speakers of the Zoque . 29 percent of the population were illiterate. 3,112 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 86% were men and 3.4% were unemployed. A good 52% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Pantepec comprises 44 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Five places had at least 500 inhabitants, 22 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Pantepec | 1820 |
San Isidro las Banderas | 1309 |
El Carrizal | 889 |
El Triunfo | 734 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Pantepec (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Pantepec (Spanish; PDF)