Municipio San Lucas (Chiapas)

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San Lucas
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat San Lucas
surface 94.4 km²
Residents 6734 (2010)
density 71.4 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07110
politics
Presidente municipal Guadalupe Guzmán Villareal

Coordinates: 16 ° 37 ′  N , 92 ° 43 ′  W

San Lucas is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 6,700 inhabitants and an area of ​​94 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous San Lucas .

geography

The municipality of San Lucas is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 400  m and 1700  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 79% limestone with 13% tuff and 5.5% silty sandstone ; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (60%), Leptosol (27%) as well as Regosol and Vertisol (each just under 7%). About 37% of the community area is forested, 35% is used for agriculture, 27% is used for pasture land.

The municipality of San Lucas borders on the municipalities of San Cristóbal de las Casas , Zinacantán , Acala , Chiapilla and Totolapa .

population

The 2010 census counted 6734 people in 1506 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 886 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 822 speakers of the Tzotzil . Over 30 percent of the population was illiterate. 2132 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 88% were men or 2.2% were unemployed. 50% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of San Lucas comprises seven inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Four places had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, the other three places had fewer than 10 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
San Lucas 4716
Francisco Villa 0794
San Jose Buenavista 0644
Laguna del Carmen 0567

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