Municipio Villaflores

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Villaflores
location
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Villaflores
surface 1,907.9 km²
Residents 98,618 (2010)
density 51.7 inhabitants per km²
founding 1915
INEGI no. 07108
politics
Presidente municipal Mariano Guadalupe Rosales Zuarth
View from the main town Villaflores to Cerro Yambiyugua
View from the main town Villaflores to Cerro Yambiyugua

Coordinates: 16 ° 15 ′  N , 93 ° 20 ′  W

Villa Comaltitlán is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has about 100,000 inhabitants and is about 1900 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the eponymous Villaflores .

There are several nature reserves in the municipality, including parts of the La Sepultura biosphere reserve .

geography

The municipality of Villaflores is located in the west of the Mexican state of Chiapas at heights between 200  m and 2300  m . 76% of it belongs to the physiographic province of the Cordillera Centroamericana , the rest to the Sierra Madre de Chiapas , and 99% of it is in the hydrological region of Grijalva - Usumacinta and 1% in the Costa de Chiapas region . The geology of the municipality is 60% granite with 22% alluvion and 16% limestone ; The predominant soil types are Leptosol (37%), Regosol (34%) and Luvisol (12%). 48% of the community area is forested, 32% is used for agriculture, 13% is used as pasture land.

The municipality borders on the municipalities Ocozocoautla de Espinosa , Suchiapa , Chiapa de Corzo , El Parral , Villa Corzo , Tonalá , Arriaga and Jiquipilas .

population

In the 2010 census, 98,618 people were counted in 24,206 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 2,160 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 1,465 speakers from Tzotzil and 315 speakers from Tzeltal . A good 15 percent of the population was illiterate. 37,178 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 77% were men or 2% were unemployed. 28% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Villaflores comprises 1058 inhabited localidades , of which, in addition to the main town, Jesús María Garza, Cristóbal Obregón, Guadalupe Victoria, Benito Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Nuevo México, Doctor Domingo Chanona and Villa Hidalgo are classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, 17 towns had a population of over 1000, while 1005 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Villaflores 37,237
Jesús María Garza 06,724
Cristóbal Obregón 04,664
Guadalupe Victoria ( Lázaro Cárdenas ) 03,583
Benito Juarez 03,567
Cuauhtémoc 03,084
Nuevo México 03,014
Doctor Domingo Chanona 02,962
Villa Hidalgo 02,502
Roblada Grande 01,729
Joaquín Miguel Gutiérrez 01,663
Francisco Villa 01,360
Libertad Melchor Ocampo 01,324
Agrónomos Mexicanos 01,202
Dieciséis de Septiembre 01,177
Ignacio Zaragoza 01,055
Calzada Larga 01,049

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