Municipio Sunuapa
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Country | Mexico | |
State | Chiapas | |
Seat | Sunuapa | |
surface | 78.6 km² | |
Residents | 2235 (2010) | |
density | 28.4 inhabitants per km² | |
founding | 1944 | |
INEGI no. | 07088 | |
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Presidente municipal | Eli Camas Castellanos |
Coordinates: 17 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ N , 93 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W.
Sunuapa is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The name of the place comes from the Nahuatl and means "river of the Jonotes " ( jonote is the name of a fruit).
The municipality is 78.6 km² and has a little over 2,000 inhabitants. The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Sunuapa of the same name .
geography
The municipality of Sunuapa is located in the northwest of the Mexican state Chiapas at an altitude of less than 900 m . 99% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas , the rest to the southern coastal plains of the Gulf of Mexico ; it lies entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is 86% sandstone with 11% sandstone lutite ; The predominant soil types are Acrisol (89%) and Luvisol (11%). About 67% of the community area is used as pastureland, 25% is forested, 5% is used for agriculture.
The Municipio Sunuapa borders on the Municipios Pichucalco and Ostuacán .
population
In the 2010 census, 2235 people in 469 residential units were counted in the municipality. Seven of them were registered as speakers of an indigenous language . A good 20 percent of the population was illiterate. 703 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 83.5% were men and 4.4% were unemployed. 36% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Sunuapa comprises 13 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 200, six towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Sunuapa | 807 |
San Pedro | 298 |
La Libertad | 288 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Sunuapa (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Sunuapa (Spanish; PDF)