Municipio Suchiapa

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Suchiapa
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Suchiapa
surface 284.8 km²
Residents 21,045 (2010)
density 73.9 inhabitants per km²
founding 1915
INEGI no. 07086
politics
Presidente municipal Alexis Nucamendi Gomez

Coordinates: 16 ° 37 ′  N , 93 ° 6 ′  W

Suchiapa is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas and is located in the mid-west of the state.

The name of this place comes from Nahuatl and means "the new water under the mountain".

The municipality has about 21,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​284.8 km². Suchiapa is the administrative seat and largest place of the municipality .

geography

The Municipio Suchiapa is located in the west of the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 400  m and 1400  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 determined by 61% limestone with 16% limestone lutite , 11% sandstone lutite and 8% alluvion ; The predominant soil types are the Leptosol (67%) and Vertisol (12%). Almost half of the community area is forested, 34% is used for arable farming and 14% is used for pasture land.

The Municipio Suchiapa borders the Municipios Ocozocoautla de Espinosa , Tuxtla Gutiérrez , Chiapa de Corzo and Villaflores .

population

In the 2010 census, 21,045 people were counted in 4,731 residential units in the municipality. 45 of them were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . About 15.8 percent of the population were illiterate. 7,505 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which a good 79% were men and 1% were unemployed. A good 31% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Suchiapa comprises 68 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three towns had a population of over 500, while 63 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Suchiapa 16,637
Pacu 02,440
La Palma 00.630
Plan de Mulumí 00.427

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