Municipio Soyaló
Soyaló | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Soyaló |
surface | 96.4 km² |
Residents | 9740 (2010) |
density | 101 inhabitants per km² |
INEGI no. | 07085 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Samuel Ortiz López |
Coordinates: 16 ° 54 ' N , 92 ° 56' W
Soyaló is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has about 10,000 inhabitants and an area of 96.4 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Soyaló .
Part of the Cañón del Sumidero National Park is located in the municipality of Soyaló.
geography
The municipality of Soyaló is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 300 m and 1900 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and is entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is 53% limestone with 39% sandstone - lutite ; The predominant soil types are the Regosol (71%) and Leptosol (22%). About 70% of the community area is forested, 18% is used for arable farming, 9% is used for pasture land.
The Municipio Soyaló borders on the Municipios Chicoasén , Bochil , Chiapa de Corzo , Ixtapa and Osumacinta .
population
In the 2010 census, 9740 people were counted in 2180 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 2,691 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 2,559 speakers of the Tzotzil . A good 21 percent of the population were illiterate. 3,151 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 87% were men and 3% were unemployed. A good 30% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Soyaló comprises 18 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Francisco Sarabia are classified as urban by the INEGI . Four towns had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, ten towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Soyaló | 4014 |
Francisco Sarabia | 3318 |
San Antonio Zaragoza | 768 |
Adolfo López Mateos | 500 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Soyaló (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Soyaló (Spanish; PDF)