Municipio Santo Domingo Tehuantepec
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Oaxaca | |
| Seat | Santo Domingo Tehuantepec | |
| surface | 1,201.9 km² | |
| Residents | 61,872 (2010) | |
| density | 51.5 inhabitants per km² | |
| Website | tehuantepec.gob.mx | |
| INEGI no. | 20515 | |
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| Presidente municipal | Donovan Rito García | |
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Coordinates: 16 ° 19 ′ N , 95 ° 14 ′ W
Santo Domingo Tehuantepec is a municipality in the Mexican state of Oaxaca . The municipal area extends over an area of 1208.9 km², the 2010 census counted 61,872 inhabitants in the municipality. The administrative seat and largest place in the municipality is the eponymous Santo Domingo Tehuantepec .
geography
The municipality of Santo Domingo Tehuantepec is located at an altitude of up to 1400 m in the Tehuantepec district of the Istmo region . 80.68% of the municipal area belong to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre del Sur , 19.32% belong to the Cordillera Centroamericana . Not quite half of Santo Domingo Tehuantepec is in the catchment area of the Río Tehuantepec , another 50% belong to the hydrological region of the Pacific coast of Oaxaca and about 2% of the municipality drains into the Gulf of Mexico via the Río Coatzacoalcos . About 73% of the municipality are occupied by rainforests, about 19% are used for agriculture.
The Municipio Santo Domingo Tehuantepec consists of a much larger southern part on the Pacific coast and an exclave inland. The southern part borders on the Municipios Magdalena Tequisistlán , Santa María Jalapa del Marqués , Santa María Mixtequilla , San Pedro Comitancillo , San Blas Atempa , San Pedro Huilotepec , Salina Cruz , Santiago Astata , San Pedro Huamelula and Santo Domingo San Miguel Tenango . The northern part of the municipality around the town of San José el Paraíso is enclosed by the municipalities Santiago Lachiguiri and Santiago Ixcuintepec .
population
In the 2010 census, 61,872 people were counted in the municipality, making Santo Domingo Tehuantepec one of the ten most populous municipalities in Oaxaca. 8.97% of them spoke an indigenous language and 11.73% were illiterate. 38.27% of the residents of Santo Domingo Tehuantepec were registered as economically active, of which 9.98% were unemployed. The predominant economic sector was the tertiary sector (65.38%), another 16% of the working population worked in the secondary sector and 18.09% in the primary sector. 8.8% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Santo Domingo Tehuantepec comprises 77 localidades , three of which are classified as urban by the INEGI and a total of twelve have at least 500 inhabitants.
| place | Residents |
| Santo Domingo Tehuantepec | 42,082 |
| Morro de Mazatan | 2,625 |
| La Noria | 2,420 |
| Santa Gertrudis Miramar | 1,291 |
| Colonia Jordán | 1,182 |
| Colonia San Luis | 1,027 |
| Rincon Moreno | 1,018 |
| Santa Cruz Bamba y Garrapatero | 932 |
| San José el Paraíso | 889 |
| 25 de Enero | 821 |
| Santa María Nativitas Coatlán | 584 |
| Guelaguechi | 515 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (Spanish; PDF)
- bieoaxaca.org: community data
