Tuxtla Chico
Tuxtla Chico | |
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Municipality of Tuxtla Chico in Chiapas | |
Tuxtla Chico Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 14°56′N 92°10′W / 14.933°N 92.167°W | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Chiapas |
| Settled | Pre-Hispanic period |
| Municipality created | 1915 |
| Area | |
• Total | 857 km2 (331 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 37,737 |
| Website | http://www.tuxtlachico.chiapas.gob.mx |
Tuxtla Chico is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 37,737,[1] up from 33,467 as of 2005.[2] It covers an area of 857 km2.
As of the same, the town of Tuxtla Chico had a population of 7,026,[1] up from 6,722 as of 2005.[2] Other than the town of Tuxtla Chico, the municipality had 60 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were:
- 2da. Sección de Medio Monte (4,182)
- 1ra. Sección de Medio Monte (2,680)
- 2da. Sección de Izapa (2,312)
- Manuel Lazos (1,826)
- El Sacrificio (1,483)
- 2da. Sección de Guillén (1,413)
- 1ra. Sección de Izapa (1,329)
- Talismán (1,311)
- Guadalupe Victoria (1,251)
- 1ra. Sección de Guillén Centro (1,168), and
- Omoha (1,131), classified as rural.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Tuxtla Chico". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ a b "Tuxtla Chico". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal / Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved August 18, 2008.