Municipio Tumbalá

Tumbalá
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Tumbalá
surface	403.5 km²
Residents	31,723 (2010)
density	78.6 inhabitants per km²
founding	1915
INEGI no.	07100
politics
Presidente municipal	Porfirio Ramos Torres

17.3 -92.316666666667Coordinates: 17 ° 18 ′ N , 92 ° 19 ′ W

Tumbalá is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 31,000 inhabitants and is 403.5 km² in size. The administrative center and largest place of the municipality is Tumbalá of the same name .

The name comes from Nahuatl and means "turned stick" or "the house of nine words".

The Cascadas de Agua Azul are located on the border with the municipality of Chilón .

geography

The municipality of Tumbalá is located north of the center of the Mexican state Chiapas at an altitude of less than 1700 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 95% limestone with 4% sandstone - lutite ; the predominant soil types are the Luvisol (60%) and Phaeozem (38%). About two thirds of the community area is forested, 31% is used for arable farming.

The municipality of Tumbalá borders on the municipalities of Salto de Agua , Chilón , Yajalón and Tila .

population

In the 2010 census, 31,723 people in 5,990 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 28,152 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 25,688 speakers from the Chol and 964 speakers from the Tzeltal . Over 34 percent of the population was illiterate. 8,186 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 93% were men and 1.4% were unemployed. Over 65% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Totolapa comprises 112 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Four towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 56 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place	Residents
Tumbalá	3227
Joshil	3110
Hidalgo Joshil	2496
Mariscal Subikuski	1036
Benito Juarez	0989
Chuchucruz Primera Sección	0959
Emiliano Zapata	0911

Web links

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