Municipio Pijijiapan

Pijijiapan
Symbols
	coat of arms
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Basic data
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
politics
Presidente municipal	Héctor Meneses Marcelino

15.683333333333 -93.216666666667Coordinates: 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	01,718
San Isidro	01,626
Joaquín Miguel Gutiérrez ( Margaritas )	01,617
Tamaulipas ( Joaquín Amaro )	01,567
El Carmen	01,416
Hermenegildo Galeana	01,158
El Palmarcito	01,135
El Zapotal ( La Esperanza )	01,031

Web links

Commons : Pijijiapan - collection of images

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