Municipio Tzimol

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Tzimol
location
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
Vista Norte de Tzimol.jpg

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 0527

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