Municipio Yajalón

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Yajalón
location
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Basic data
Country Mexico
State Chiapas
Seat Yajalón
surface 210 km²
Residents 34,028 (2010)
density 162.1 inhabitants per km²
INEGI no. 07109
politics
Presidente municipal Juan Manuel Utrilla Constantino
View of the center of Yajalón
View of the center of Yajalón

Coordinates: 17 ° 10 ′  N , 92 ° 20 ′  W

Yajalón is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas . The municipality has 34,000 inhabitants and is 210 km² in size. The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is the Yajalón of the same name . The name Yajalón comes from the Tzeltal and means "green earth".

geography

The municipality of Yajalón is located in the north-central part of the Mexican state Chiapas at heights between 400  m and 2500  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 78% limestone with 14% sandstone and 8% sandstone lutite ; The predominant soil types are Luvisol (39%), Phaeozem (38%) and Ferralsol (11%). 59% of the community area is forested, 36.5% is used for arable farming.

Yajalón borders the municipalities Tumbalá , Tila , Chilón , Pantelhó and Simojovel .

population

The 2010 census counted 34,028 people in 7,058 residential units in the municipality. Of these, 20,425 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 15,328 speakers from the Tzeltal and 4,072 speakers from the Chol . A good 27 percent of the population was illiterate. 10,534 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which over 81% were men or 1.7% were unemployed. 56% of the population lived in extreme poverty.

places

The Municipio Yajalón comprises 211 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . In the 2010 census, three places had a population of over 1000, 160 places had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:

place Residents
Yajalón 16,622
Amado Nervo 01,362
Lázaro Cárdenas 01,151
Emiliano Zapata 00.555
El Recreo 00.527

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