Chicjá - Chiapas

Facts about Chicjá

Location of Chicjá

Chicjá is located in the municipality of San Juan Cancuc in the Mexican state of Chiapas with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -92.380278
Latitude (dec): 16.926944

Height over sea level of Chicjá

The locations medium height over sea level is 900 meters.

Population in Chicjá

The over all population of Chicjá is 559 persons, 286 of them are male and 273 of them are female.

Age distribution

The population of this place consists of 291 minors and 268 adults, with 30 of them being 60 years and older.

Indigenous population of Chicjá

559 inhabitants of the location Chicjá in Mexico live in indigenous households. 474 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 221 people, while 252 as well speak Spanish.

Social structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 0 citizens of Chicjá.

Economic situation

In Chicjá exist about 105 households.

Of these households 105 are common houses or apartments, 91 are without floor and about 4 consist of one room only.

93 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 102 are connected to the public water supply, 94 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 0 households to own a computer, 0 own a washing machine and 3 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Chicjá

Besides the 162 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 22 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

128 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 147 persons did not finish the school. 14 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 17 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 23 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 3 years.