Municipio Tumbalá
Tumbalá | |
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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 |
Coordinates: 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 | 989 |
Chuchucruz Primera Sección | 959 |
Emiliano Zapata | 911 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Tumbalá (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Tumbalá (Spanish; PDF)