Municipio Salto de Agua

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Salto de Agua
location
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
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

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