Municipio Rayón (Chiapas)
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Rayón |
surface | 67.9 km² |
Residents | 9002 (2010) |
density | 132.6 inhabitants per km² |
INEGI no. | 07073 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Antonia Ortiz Sánchez |
Central Park of Rayón |
Coordinates: 17 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ N , 93 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W.
Rayón is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 9,000 inhabitants and an area of 67.9 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Rayón of the same name .
The name Rayón honors Ignacio López Rayón , a person who participated in the Mexican War of Independence.
geography
The municipality of Rayón is located in the north-central part of the Mexican state Chiapas at altitudes between 900 m and 2100 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 63% limestone , 30% andesite - breccia and 7% sandstone - lutite ; the predominant soil types are Leptosol (51%), Luvisol (26%) and Phaeozem (4%). About 64% of the community area is taken up by pastureland, 20% is used for agriculture, 14% is forested.
The municipality of Rayón borders on the municipalities of Tapilula , Rincón Chamula San Pedro , Jitotol and Pantepec .
population
In the 2010 census, 9002 people in 1869 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 2,496 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 2,165 speakers of the Zoque . A good 23 percent of the population was illiterate. 2807 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which almost 81% were men and 5% were unemployed. Almost 49% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Rayón comprises 33 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Two places had at least 500 inhabitants, 24 places less than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Rayón | 5895 |
El Pinabeto | 673 |
Manzanillo Pinabeto | 342 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Rayón (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Rayón (Spanish; PDF)