Municipio Simojovel
Simojovel de Allende | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Simojovel de Allende |
surface | 315 km² |
Residents | 40,297 (2010) |
density | 127.9 inhabitants per km² |
founding | 1915 |
INEGI no. | 07081 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Viridiana Hernández Sánchez |
Panorama Simojovels (1987) |
Coordinates: 17 ° 9 ′ N , 92 ° 43 ′ W
Simojovel is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 40,000 inhabitants and an area of 315 km². The largest place of the municipality and at the same time its administrative seat is Simojovel de Allende .
Geography and geology
The municipality of Simojovel is located in the north-central part of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 200 m and 2200 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and lies entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . About 57% of the community area is forested, 27% is used for pasture land, 15% is used for agriculture.
The geology of the municipality is determined by 48% limestone with 35% sandstone - lutite and 17% sandstone; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (47%), Planosol (44%) and Phaeozem (9%). The municipality is located in mountains, which are composed of mostly siliciclastic sedimentary rocks of the Tertiary and limestones of the Upper Cretaceous and whose tectonics are characterized by folds , lateral shifts and thrusts ( Chiapas Thrust-Fold Belt ). The late Oligocene- Early Miocene parts of the strata sequence ( Mazantic slate , Balumtum sandstone ) are characterized by the presence of amber (so-called Chiapas amber ), which is the subject of intensive scientific research due to its inclusions of fossil arthropods .
The municipality of Simojovel borders on the municipalities of Huitiupán , Sabanilla , Tila , Yajalón , Pantelhó , Chalchihuitán , El Bosque , Jitotol , San Andrés Duraznal and Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán .
population
The 2010 census counted 40,297 people in 7,379 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 26,731 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 18,619 speakers from Tzotzil and 5,868 speakers from Tzeltal . Almost 32 percent of the population were illiterate. 10,968 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which almost 87% were men and 1% were unemployed. Over 68% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Simojovel comprises 122 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Seven places had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 54 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Simojovel de Allende | 10,762 |
Pueblo Nuevo Sitala | 2,437 |
La Pimienta | 1,755 |
El Jardín | 1,626 |
La Ceiba | 1,275 |
Las Maravillas | 1,204 |
Constitución | 1.103 |
Guadalupe Victoria Dos | 958 |
José Castillo Tielemans | 827 |
Las Mercedes Esperanza | 754 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Simojovel (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Simojovel (Spanish; PDF)