Municipio Xalapa

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Xalapa
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
Basic data
Country Mexico
State Veracruz
Seat Xalapa Enríquez
surface 124.4 km²
Residents 480,841 (2015)
density 3,865.9 inhabitants per km²
founding May 26, 1825
INEGI no. 30087
politics
Presidente municipal Pedro Hipólito Rodríguez Herrero
Location of the city of Xalapa (yellow) in the municipality
Location of the city of Xalapa (yellow) in the municipality

Coordinates: 19 ° 35 ′  N , 96 ° 56 ′  W

The Municipio Xalapa is one of 212 Municipios in the Mexican state of Veracruz . The municipality is practically congruent with the city of Xalapa , the capital of the state of Veracruz.

geography

The municipality of Xalapa is located in the eastern foothills of the Cofre de Perote and is at an altitude between 700 and 1,600 meters above sea level. The administrative unit is limited by six neighboring municipalities:


Banderilla Jilotepec Naolinco
Tlalnelhuayocan compass
Coatepec Emiliano Zapata

The municipality Xalapa has an area of ​​124.4 km², of which around 50 percent of the area is the urban area of ​​the city of Xalapa.

Residents

Current key figures

A total of 480,841 inhabitants lived in the municipality in 2015, with the gender ratio being relatively balanced at 52.9 percent women to 47.1 percent men.

The population lived in 139,297 houses, with 99.1 percent of the water supply connected. In 2015, 99.6 percent had a power connection. 40.5 percent of all households had a car, 96.8 percent a television, almost every second household had a computer and an Internet connection. Cell phones were found in 90.1 percent of households.

With these key figures, the municipality of Xalapa is one of the most developed municipalities in the state of Veracruz. This is due to the fact that the city of Xalapa makes up a large part of the municipality.

For the year 2017, with 502,151 inhabitants, the size of half a million inhabitants was projected for the first time. That would be around 6.15 percent of the population of the state of Veracruz.

Historical development

In the 1910 census , the then Canton Jalapa comprised 92,249 inhabitants. By far the largest branch of employment was agriculture (men) and household chores (women). Nevertheless, the figures at that time cannot be included in the table of development below, as today's Municipios have a different area than the cantons of that time .

Reliable data on the population development in the Municipio Xalapa (or, according to the old spelling, Municipio Jalapa ) have been available since 1930. There has been a significant population growth since 1960. In the last few decades the municipality's population grew between 0.99 percent (2000-2005) and 3.54 percent (1995-2000).

year 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
population 40,246 46,827 59,275 78.120 130,380 212,769 288.454 324.081 390,590 413.136 457.928 480,841
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Xalapa was always the largest place within the municipality. In terms of population, the vast majority also lived in the city.

places

The municipality of Xalapa comprises 55 inhabited localidades , 5 of which are classified as urban by the INEGI . These are (2010):

place Residents
Xalapa 424,755
Colonia Santa Bárbara 8,617
Lomas Verdes 6,583
El Castillo 5,154
Las Fuentes 3,039

Other places are mainly small localities with fewer than 500 inhabitants.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CEIEG Veracruz: CUADERNILLOS MUNICIPALES, 2016. Accessed March 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ INEGI: Tercer Censo de Población de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos 1910. Accessed March 27, 2019 .
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  8. ^ México en Cifras. January 1, 2016, accessed March 27, 2019 (Spanish).
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  11. ^ México en Cifras. January 1, 2016, accessed March 27, 2019 (Spanish).
  12. ↑ Población por Localidad 2000. January 1, 2016, accessed on March 27, 2019 (Spanish).
  13. ^ México en Cifras. January 1, 2016, accessed March 27, 2019 (Spanish).
  14. ^ México en Cifras. January 1, 2016, accessed March 27, 2019 (Spanish).
  15. ^ México en Cifras. January 1, 2016, accessed March 27, 2019 (Spanish).
  16. ↑ CEIEG Veracruz: CUADERNILLOS MUNICIPALES, 2016. Accessed March 11, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Datos Generales. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .