Cintalapa

Cintalapa
Cintalapa
Municipality

Municipality of Cintalapa in Chiapas
Cintalapa

Location in Mexico

Coordinates: 16°41′16″N 93°42′39″W / 16.68778°N 93.71083°W / 16.68778; -93.71083Coordinates: 16°41′16″N 93°42′39″W / 16.68778°N 93.71083°W / 16.68778; -93.71083
Country  Mexico
State Chiapas
Area
  Total 928.4 sq mi (2,404.6 km2)
Population (2010)
  Total 78,114

Cintalapa is a town and one of the 122 Municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. It covers an area of 2404.6 km².

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 78,114,[1] up from 64,013 as of 2005.[2]

The municipality had 943 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Cintalapa de Figueroa (42,467), Lázaro Cárdenas (3,002), classified as urban, and Cereso 14 (El Amate) (2,243), Villamorelos (1,677), Nueva Tenochtitlán (Rizo de Oro) (1,640), Emiliano Zapata (1,507), Pomposo Castellanos (1,489), Francisco I. Madero (1,444), Mérida (1,412), and Vista Hermosa (1,149), classified as rural.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cintalapa". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  2. "Cintalapa". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas. Retrieved July 25, 2008.
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