Municipio Unión Juarez
Unión Juarez | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Mexico |
State | Chiapas |
Seat | Unión Juarez |
surface | 62.3 km² |
Residents | 14,089 (2010) |
density | 226.3 inhabitants per km² |
founding | October 18, 1870 |
INEGI no. | 07105 |
politics | |
Presidente municipal | Doni Alan Verdugo Aguilar |
Coordinates: 15 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ N , 92 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ W.
Unión Juárez is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas . The municipality has almost 14,000 inhabitants and is 62.3 km² in size. The administrative seat is the Unión Juárez of the same name , while the largest place in the municipality is Santo Domingo .
The name of the municipality is dedicated to the Mexican President Benito Juárez .
geography
The Municipio Unión Juárez is located in the south of the Mexican state of Chiapas in the Soconusco region at heights between 500 m and over 4000 m on the Tacaná volcano . 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 determined by 36% andesite with 33% granite and 29% conglomerate rock ; The predominant soil types are Andosol (80%) and Cambisol (20%). Over 80% of the community area is used for arable farming, around 10% is forested.
The Municipio Unión Juárez borders the Municipio Cacahoatán and the Republic of Guatemala .
population
The 2010 census counted 14,089 people in 3,215 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 144 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 136 speakers of the Mam . 15 percent of the population were illiterate. 4,256 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which just under 84% were men and 3.6% were unemployed. A good 25% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The Municipio Unión Juárez comprises 37 inhabited localidades , of which the main town and Santo Domingo are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three places had a population of over 1,000, 15 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
place | Residents |
Santo Domingo | 3796 |
Unión Juarez | 2635 |
Once de April | 1209 |
Trinidad | 975 |
Cordova Matasanos | 775 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Unión Juárez (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Unión Juárez (Spanish; PDF)