Municipio Pijijiapan
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Country | Mexico | |
State | Chiapas | |
Seat | Pijijiapan | |
surface | 1,762.8 km² | |
Residents | 50,079 (2010) | |
density | 28.4 inhabitants per km² | |
founding | 1915 | |
INEGI no. | 07069 | |
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Presidente municipal | Héctor Meneses Marcelino | |
Coordinates: 15 ° 41 ′ N , 93 ° 13 ′ W
Pijijiapan is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 50,000 inhabitants and an area of 1762.8 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Pijijiapan .
The name Pijijiapan is derived from the Mam term pijiji for a swimming bird and the Nahuatl word apam for a place with water.
The municipality has a share in the biosphere reserves El Triunfo and La Encrucijada .
geography
The municipality of Pijijiapan is located in the southwest of the Mexican state Chiapas between altitude and 2500 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana ; it is 99% in the hydrological region of Costa de Chiapas and one percent in the Grijalva - Usumacinta region . The geology of the municipality is 48% granite with 35% alluvion and 13% lacustrian deposits; The predominant soil types are Regosol (34%), Cambisol (21%), Leptosol (15%) and Solonchak (12%). About 52% of the municipal area is taken up by pastureland, 34% is forested, 9% is covered by mangroves.
The Municipio Pijijiapan borders the Municipios Tonalá , Villa Corzo , La Concordia and Mapastepec and the Pacific Ocean .
population
The 2010 census counted 50,079 people in 12,799 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 338 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 179 speakers from the Tzeltal . Over 15 percent of the population was illiterate. 17,709 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which almost 80% were men or 1.25% were unemployed. Almost 37% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Pijijiapan comprises 788 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by INEGI . Nine places had at least 1000 inhabitants, 731 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Pijijiapan | 16,917 |
Las Brisas | 1,718 |
San Isidro | 1,626 |
Joaquín Miguel Gutiérrez ( Margaritas ) | 1,617 |
Tamaulipas ( Joaquín Amaro ) | 1,567 |
El Carmen | 1,416 |
Hermenegildo Galeana | 1,158 |
El Palmarcito | 1,135 |
El Zapotal ( La Esperanza ) | 1,031 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Pijijiapan (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Pijijiapan (Spanish; PDF)