Municipio San Fernando (Chiapas)

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San Fernando
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat San Fernando
surface 361.8 km²
Residents 33,060 (2010)
density 91.4 inhabitants per km²
founding 1915
INEGI no. 07079
politics
Presidente municipal Juan Antonio Castillejos Castellanos

Coordinates: 16 ° 52 ′  N , 93 ° 12 ′  W

San Fernando is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has almost 33,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​361.77 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous San Fernando .

Earlier names of San Fernando were in the language of the Zoques Sahuipac , which means "canyon of the monkeys", and Osumapa in Nahuatl with the same meaning.

Part of the Cañón del Sumidero National Park is located in the municipality of San Fernando .

geography

The municipality of San Fernando is located in the west of the Mexican state of Chiapas at altitudes between 100  m and 1800  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 determined by 61% limestone with 31% sandstone - lutite and 7% limestone lutite; The predominant soil types are Leptosol (31%), Alisol (26%), Luvisol (20%) and Regosol (19%). About 65% of the community area is forested, 20% is used for pasture land, 14% is used for agriculture.

The municipality of San Fernando borders on the municipalities of Copainalá , Chicoasén , Osumacinta , Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Berriozábal .

population

The 2010 census counted 33,060 people in 7,690 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 497 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 351 speakers of the Tzotzil . A good 15 percent of the population was illiterate. 11,797 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 82% were men and 3% were unemployed. Over 26% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of San Fernando comprises 132 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, nine towns had a population of over 1000, 99 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
San Fernando 9651
El Progreso 2704
El Copalar 2039
Francisco I. Madero 1993
Gabriel Esquinca 1968
Benito Juarez 1488
Viva Cardenas 1431
Álvaro Obregón 1126
16 de Septiembre 1020
Miguel Hidalgo ( Lenin ) 0994

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