Chicoasén is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
Mexican state of
Chiapas in southern
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. It covers an area of 82 km².
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 5,018,
up from 3,346 as of 2005.
As of 2010, the town of Chicoasén had a population of 3,343.
[ Other than the town of Chicoasén, the municipality had 23 localities, none of which had a population over 1,000.][
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References
Municipalities of Chiapas
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