Municipio Tenejapa

Tenejapa
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Tenejapa
surface	193.1 km²
Residents	40,268 (2010)
density	208.5 inhabitants per km²
founding	November 23, 1922
INEGI no.	07093
politics
Presidente municipal	Alfonso Intzin Girón
	Carnival in Tenejapa

16.816666666667 -92.516944444444Coordinates: 16 ° 49 ′ N , 92 ° 31 ′ W

Tenejapa is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has a good 40,000 inhabitants and is 193.1 km² in size. The administrative seat is Tenejapa of the same name , while the largest place in the municipality is Kotolte .

The name comes from Nahuatl and means "calcareous river".

geography

The municipality of Tenejapa is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 800 m and 2700 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and lies entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is determined by 60% limestone with 19% sandstone - lutite and 17% silty sandstone; The predominant soil types are Alisol (34%), Luvisol (30%), Leptosol (27%) and Phaeozem (10%). 49.5% of the municipal area is forested or used for arable farming.

The municipality of Tenejapa is bordered by the municipalities of Chenalhó , San Juan Cancuc , Oxchuc , Huixtán , San Cristóbal de las Casas , Chamula and Mitontic .

population

The 2010 census counted 40,268 people in 7,132 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 36,353 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 33,759 speakers from the Tzeltal . A good 25 percent of the population was illiterate. 11,616 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which just under 82% were men and 0.65% were unemployed. 65% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Tenejapa comprises 66 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 13 towns had a population of over 1000, ten towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Feces	2503
Tzajalchén	2276
Tz'aquiviljok	2176
Tenejapa	1998
Yashanal	1893
Matzam	1599
Chixtontic	1512
Chacoma	1462
Sibaniljá Pocolum	1419
Tres Cerros	1228
Ococh	1187
Majosik	1116
Jomanichim	1112
Shishintonil	0999

Web links

Commons : Municipio Tenejapa - collection of images

Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Tenejapa (Spanish)
INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Tenejapa (Spanish; PDF)