Municipio Venustiano Carranza (Chiapas)

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Venustiano Carranza
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Venustiano Carranza
surface 1,364.6 km²
Residents 61,341 (2010)
density 45 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07106
politics
Presidente municipal Armando Madain Trujillo Ancheyta

Coordinates: 16 ° 20 ′  N , 92 ° 34 ′  W

Venustiano Carranza is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 61,000 inhabitants and is 1364.6 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest town of the municipality is Venustiano Carranza of the same name .

The name of the municipality is dedicated to the former Mexican president Venustiano Carranza . The place used to be called Copanahuastla , which comes from Nahuatl and means "place of the snakes".

geography

The municipality of Venustiano Carranza is centrally located in the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 400  m and 2300  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 51% limestone with 14% silty sandstone and 12% alluvion ; The predominant soil types are Leptosol (41%), Phaeozem (17%), Luvisol and Vertisol (each 14%). About 54% of the community area is used for arable farming, 19% is forested, 17% is used as pasture land.

The Municipio Venustiano Carranza borders the Municipios Totolapa , Nicolás Ruiz , Teopisca , Amatenango del Valle , Las Rosas , Socoltenango , La Concordia , Villa Corzo , El Parral , Chiapa de Corzo , Emiliano Zapata and Acala .

population

In the 2010 census, 61,341 people in 14,459 residential units were counted in the municipality. Of these, 12,855 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 7,448 speakers from Tzotzil and 4,656 speakers from Tzeltal . 25 percent of the population were illiterate. 23,005 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which 78.5% were men and 4% were unemployed. 43% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Venustiano Carranza comprises 293 inhabited localidades , of which the main town as well as San Francisco Pujiltic, Soyatitán, Ricardo Flores Magón, Aguacatenango and Presidente Echeverría are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 13 towns had a population of over 1000, 243 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Venustiano Carranza 15,496
San Francisco Pujiltic 07.137
Soyatitán 03,904
Ricardo Flores Magón 03,483
Presidente Echeverría ( Laja Tendida ) 03,084
San Francisco ( El Calvito ) 02,409
Vicente Guerrero 01.997
Paraíso del Grijalva 01,930
Guadalupe Victoria 01,767
Mariano Matamoros 01,566
Miguel Hidalgo 01,178
El Puerto 01,092
Grandeza del Río Blanco 00.893

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