Municipio Yajalón
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Country | Mexico | |
State | Chiapas | |
Seat | Yajalón | |
surface | 210 km² | |
Residents | 34,028 (2010) | |
density | 162.1 inhabitants per km² | |
INEGI no. | 07109 | |
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Presidente municipal | Juan Manuel Utrilla Constantino | |
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 | 1,362 |
Lázaro Cárdenas | 1,151 |
Emiliano Zapata | 555 |
El Recreo | 527 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Yajalón (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Yajalón (Spanish; PDF)