Mérida - Chiapas

Facts about Mérida

Location of Mérida

Mérida is located in the municipality of Cintalapa in the Mexican state of Chiapas with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -93.816944
Latitude (dec): 16.567500

Height over sea level of Mérida

The locations medium height over sea level is 660 meters.

Population in Mérida

The over all population of Mérida is 1255 persons, 641 of them are male and 614 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 483 minors and 772 adults, with 111 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Mérida

5 inhabitants of the location Mérida in Mexico live in indigenous households. 1 of the citizens 5 years and older, speak an indigenous language. The count of people who only speak an indigenous language without having knowledge of the Spanish language is 0 people, while 1 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 25 citizens of Mérida.

Economic situation

In Mérida exist about 247 households.

Of these households 238 are common houses or apartments, 94 are without floor and about 42 consist of one room only.

199 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 221 are connected to the public water supply, 224 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 0 households to own a computer, 22 own a washing machine and 185 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Mérida

Besides the 125 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 14 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

104 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 518 persons did not finish the school. 161 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 71 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 74 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 5 years.