Municipio Villa Comaltitlán

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Villa Comaltitlán
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Villa Comaltitlán
surface 447 km²
Residents 27,899 (2010)
density 62.4 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07071
politics
Presidente municipal Daniela Estrada Choy

Coordinates: 15 ° 13 ′  N , 92 ° 34 ′  W

Villa Comaltitlán is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has 27,899 inhabitants and is 447 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Villa Comaltitlán .

The name Comaltitlán comes from the Nahuatl and means "place of the ceramists".

In the south of the municipality there are parts of the Reserva de la Biósfera "La Encrucijada" nature reserve .

geography

The municipality of Villa Comaltitlán is located in the south of the Mexican state Chiapas in the Soconusco region between sea level and 1000  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 determined to 43% by alluvion with 29% lacustric deposits and 21% granite ; The predominant soil types are Cambisol (42%), Gleysol (15%), Regosol (14%) and Phaeozem (10%). Around 32% of the municipal area is used for arable farming or serves as pastureland.

The Municipio borders on the Municipios Escuintla , Huixtla and Acapetahua .

population

The 2010 census counted 27,899 people in 6,604 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 179 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 94 speakers from the Tzeltal . 16.6 percent of the population were illiterate. 9,112 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of whom over 82% were men or 1.1% were unemployed. 37% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Villa Comaltitlán comprises 144 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Four towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 96 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Villa Comaltitlán 7201
Hidalgo 1640
Lázaro Cárdenas 1531
Zacualpa 1076
Cantón las Brisas 0856
Cantón Santa Cruz la Unión 0828

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