Municipio Tzimol
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Tzimol |
surface | 359.4 km² |
Residents | 14,009 (2010) |
density | 39 inhabitants per km² |
INEGI no. | 07104 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Eugenio de Jesús Jiménez López |
Coordinates: 16 ° 10 ′ N , 92 ° 15 ′ W
Tzimol is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state Chiapas . It has about 14,000 inhabitants and is 359.4 km² in size. The administrative center is Tzimol of the same name .
The name Tzimol comes from Nahuatl and means "old dog".
geography
The municipality of Tzimol is located southeast of the center of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 400 m and 1900 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 determined by 80% limestone with 13% alluvion and 7% travertine ; The predominant soil types are the Leptosol (86%) and Vertisol (13%). About 53% of the community area is used for arable farming, 34% is forested, 11% is used as pasture land.
The municipality of Tzimol borders on the municipalities of Comitán de Domínguez , La Trinitaria and Socoltenango .
population
In the 2010 census, 14,009 people in 3,633 residential units were counted in the municipality. 195 of them were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 115 speakers of the Tzotzil . Almost 25 percent of the population were illiterate. 5,188 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which just under 82% were men and a good 1.5% were unemployed. 34% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Tzimol comprises 78 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and San Vicente la Mesilla are classified as urban by the INEGI . Four towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 62 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Tzimol | 5112 |
San Vicente la Mesilla | 2604 |
Ochusjob | 1173 |
Héroes de Chapultepec ( El Limón ) | 1015 |
Francisco Villa | 527 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Tzimol (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Tzimol (Spanish; PDF)