Municipio Salto de Agua
Salto de Agua | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Salto de Agua |
surface | 1,232.3 km² |
Residents | 57,253 (2010) |
density | 46.5 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1915 |
INEGI no. | 07077 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Roman Mena de la Cruz |
Waterfall in the municipality of Salto de Agua |
Coordinates: 17 ° 33 ′ N , 92 ° 20 ′ W
Salto de Agua is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 57,000 inhabitants and an area of 1232.3 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Salto de Agua of the same name .
The Misol-Ha waterfall is located in the municipality of Salto de Agua .
geography
The municipality Salto de Agua is located in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas at an altitude of less than 1200 m . 89% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and 11% to the southern coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico ; it is entirely located in the Grijalva - Usumacinta hydrological region . The geology of the municipality is determined by 50% limestone with 25% sandstone and almost 11% each of sandstone lutite and alluvion ; the predominant soil types are Phaeozem (36%), Luvisol (34%) and Regosol (16%). Almost 47% of the community area is forested or used as pastureland, around five percent is used for arable farming.
The Municipio Salto de Agua borders the Municipios Palenque , Chilón , Tumbalá and Tila as well as the state of Tabasco .
population
In the 2010 census, 57,253 people were counted in 11,302 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 44,407 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 37,422 speakers from the Chol and 4,532 speakers from the Tzeltal . Over 28 percent of the population was illiterate. 15,923 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 92% were men and 0.7% were unemployed. 39% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Salto de Agua comprises 307 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Eleven towns had at least 1000 inhabitants, 182 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Salto de Agua | 5199 |
Egipto | 1419 |
Belisario Domínguez | 1393 |
San Miguel | 1373 |
Santa María | 1317 |
Ignacio Zaragoza | 1303 |
Río Jordán | 1197 |
Estrella de Belén | 1151 |
Jerusalem | 1151 |
Arroyo Palenque | 1137 |
Cenobio Aguilar ( La Trinidad ) | 1006 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Salto de Agua (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Salto de Agua (Spanish; PDF)