Municipio Tuzantan

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Tuzantan
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Tuzantan
surface 174.9 km²
Residents 28,137
density 160.9 inhabitants per km²
founding February 10, 1942error
INEGI no. 07103
politics
Presidente municipal Bany Oved Guzmán Ramos

Coordinates: 15 ° 9 ′  N , 92 ° 25 ′  W

Tuzantán is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has a good 28,000 inhabitants and is 174.9 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is Tuzantán of the same name .

The name Tuzantán comes from the Nahuatl and means "where there are a lot of pocket rats ".

geography

The municipality of Tuzantán is located in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas in the Soconusco region at altitudes below 1,400  m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana and lies entirely in the hydrological region of Costa de Chiapas . The geology of the municipality is 63% granite with 26% alluvion and 6% andesite ; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (52%), Cambisol (27%) and Acrisol (15%). About 70% of the community area is used for arable farming, 29% is used as pasture land.

The municipality of Tuzantán borders on the municipalities of Motozintla , Tapachula , Huehuetán and Huixtla .

population

The 2010 census counted 28,137 people in 6,476 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 127 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 38 speakers of the Mam and 36 speakers of the Tzotzil . 15.5 percent of the population were illiterate. 9,597 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which just under 79% were men and 1.5% were unemployed. 40% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The municipality of Tuzantán comprises 121 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Xochiltepec are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, five towns had a population of over 1000, 70 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Tuzantan 2863
Xochiltepec 2563
Primer Cantón 1477
Estación Tuzantán 1225
Villa Hidalgo 1089
Segundo Cantón 0952
El Tarral 0943
Cuarto Cantón 0911
Nueva Tenochtitlán 0900

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