Municipio Tila

Tila
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Tila
surface	803.9 km²
Residents	71,432 (2010)
density	88.9 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no.	07096
politics
Presidente municipal	Limber Gregorio Gutiérrez Gómez

17.3 -92.433333333333Coordinates: 17 ° 18 ′ N , 92 ° 26 ′ W

Tila is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has 71,432 inhabitants and is 803.9 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest place in the municipality is Tila of the same name .

The name Tila comes from Nahuatl and means "in the black water".

geography

The municipality of Tila is located in the north of the Mexican state Chiapas at an altitude of less than 2200 m . It counts to over 99% in the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and to 0.7% in the southern coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico ; it lies entirely in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta . The geology of the municipality is determined by 68% limestone with 21% sandstone - lutite , 7% sandstone and 4% alluvion ; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (54%), Ferralsol , Leptosol (19% each) and Phaeozem (7%). About 50% of the community area is forested, 37% is used for agriculture, 13% is used for pasture land.

The municipality borders on the municipalities Salto de Agua , Tumbalá , Yajalón , Simojovel and Sabanilla as well as the state of Tabasco .

population

The 2010 census counted 71,432 people in 13,783 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 61,709 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 52,232 speakers from Chol and 6,240 from Tzeltal . 29 percent of the population were illiterate. 20,083 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 91% were men and 0.9% were unemployed. A good 69% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Tila comprises 158 inhabited localidades , of which the main town as well as Petalcingo, Nueva Esperanza and El Limar are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 15 towns had a population of over 1000, 54 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Tila	7164
Petalcingo	6775
Nueva Esperanza	4059
El Limar	2908
Chulum Juarez	2137
Tocob Leglemal	2067
Nuevo Limar	1974
Shoctic	1717
Usipa	1450
Cantioc	1426
Joljá	1303
Chulum Cárdenas	1126
Jolsibaquil	1103
Misija	1087
Unión Juarez	1012
Álvaro Obregón	0983

Web links

Commons : Tila - collection of images

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