Municipio Tlacoachistlahuaca

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Tlacoachistlahuaca
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Guerrero
Seat Tlacoachistlahuaca
surface 805.5 km²
Residents 21,306 (2010)
density 26.5 inhabitants per km²
founding May 11, 1872
Website www.tlacoachistlahuaca.gob.mx/
INEGI no. 12062
politics
Presidente municipal Juan Javier Carmona Villavicencio
The Arroyo Teconcuella in the municipality of Tlacoachistlahuaca
The Arroyo Teconcuella in the municipality of Tlacoachistlahuaca

Coordinates: 16 ° 48 ′  N , 98 ° 18 ′  W

The municipality Tlacoachistlahuaca is a municipality in the east of the Mexican state Guerrero in the Costa Chica region . The administrative seat of the municipality is located in the town of the same name, Tlacoachistlahuaca , which is also the largest in the municipality. The municipality had 21,306 inhabitants at the 2010 census, its area amounts to 805 km².

geography

The municipality of Tlacoachistlahuaca is located in the east of the Mexican state of Guerrero at heights between 100  m and 2300  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre del Sur and almost entirely in the catchment area of ​​the Río Ometepec . 60% of the geology of the municipality is determined by intrusive rock ( granite - granodiorite ) with about 20% gneiss ; The predominant soil types are Leptosol (48%), Regosol (32%) and Cambisol (17%). More than 90% of the community area is forested.

Neighboring municipios in the state of Guerrero are Xochistlahuaca , Ometepec , Igualapa , Metlatónoc , Cochoapa el Grande and Alcozauca de Guerrero , and Tlacoachistlahuaca borders on the state of Oaxaca .

population

The 2010 census counted 21,306 people in 3,878 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 15,804 persons were registered as speaker of an indigenous language, including 10,111 speakers of Mixtec and 4,595 spokesman for the Guerrero Amuzgo . Over 48 percent of the population was illiterate. 6,274 residents were registered as economically active, of which approx. 69% were men or 5.3% were unemployed. More than 66% of the population lived in extreme poverty. The predominant religion is Catholicism.

places

The Municipio Tlacoachistlahuaca comprises 53 inhabited localidades, of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, seven towns had a population of over 1000, 29 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Tlacoachistlahuaca 4359
Huehuetónoc 1858
Jicayán de Tovar 1397
San Cristobal 1297
Santa Cruz Yucucani 1274
San Pedro Cuitlapan 1249
Rancho Viejo ( Rancho Nuevo de la Democracia ) 1087

Web links

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