Municipio San Lucas (Chiapas)
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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 | 794 |
San Jose Buenavista | 644 |
Laguna del Carmen | 567 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio San Lucas (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio San Lucas (Spanish; PDF)