Huixtán

Huixtán
Municipality
Municipality of Huixtán in Chiapas
Huixtán Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 16°46′N 92°27′W / 16.767°N 92.450°WCoordinates: 16°46′N 92°27′W / 16.767°N 92.450°W
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Area
• Total	70.0 sq mi (181.3 km^2)
Population (2010)
• Total	21,507
Time zone	GMT -6

Huixtán is a town and one of the 119 Municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. Huixtán in the Nahuatl language means "the place of the prickles."

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 21,507,^[1] up from 18,630 as of 2005.^[2] It covers an area of 181.3 km².

As of 2010, the town of Huixtán had a population of 1,716.^[1] Other than the town of Huixtán, the municipality had 66 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Los Pozos (1,436), Lázaro Cárdenas (Chilil) (1,177), and Carmen Yalchuch (1,124), classified as rural.^[1]

References

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