Municipio Santiago el Pinar
Santiago el Pinar | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Santiago el Pinar |
surface | 16.6 km² |
Residents | 3245 (2010) |
density | 195.6 inhabitants per km² |
founding | July 28, 1999 |
INEGI no. | 07119 |
Coordinates: 16 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ N , 92 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ W.
Santiago el Pinar is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 3,200 inhabitants and an area of 16.6 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Santiago el Pinar of the same name .
geography
The municipality of Santiago el Pinar is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at altitudes between 800 m and 2100 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 45.6% silty sandstone with 41.8% sandstone lutite and 12.6% limestone ; the predominant soil types are the Phaeozem (87.5%) and Alisol (12.5%). A good 60% of the community area is forested, 37% are used for agriculture.
The municipality of Santiago el Pinar borders on the municipalities of Aldama and Larráinzar .
population
In the 2010 census, 3245 people in 641 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 2815 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 2606 speakers of the Tzotzil . Over 38 percent of the population were illiterate. 679 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which almost 95% were men and 0.6% were unemployed. Almost 70% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Santiago el Pinar comprises 13 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Only one place had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, three places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Santiago el Pinar | 1072 |
Nínamo | 486 |
Choyo | 383 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Santiago el Pinar (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Santiago el Pinar (Spanish; PDF)