Hecelchakán

Information and facts about the municipality of Hecelchakán

Location of Hecelchakán

The municipality of Hecelchakán is located in the Mexican state of Campeche México

Population of Hecelchakán

The overall population of the municipality named Hecelchakán is 26973 citizens, 13514 males and 13459 females.

Age distribution

The population of Hecelchakán is divided into 10111 minors and 16862 adults, with 2320 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Hecelchakán

20174 people in Hecelchakán live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 11170 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 279 and 10791 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 13955 citizens of Hecelchakán.

Economic situation

In Hecelchakán about 6041 households are registered.

5962 of these households are common houses or apartments, 405 are without floor and about 818 consist of one room only.

4273 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 5106 are connected to the public water supply, 5481 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 414 households to own a computer, 2962 own a washing machine and 4796 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Hecelchakán

Besides the 2738 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 268 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

2318 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 7306 persons did not finish the school. 3258 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 5624 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 2626 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.