Pichucalco 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 one of the 119
municipalities of Chiapas
Chiapas is a state in Southwest Mexico. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, it has the eighth largest population of all states with inhabitants and the 10th largest by land area spanning . Chiapas is officially divided into 124 municipalities, ...
, in southern
Mexico
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.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 29,813,
up from 29,357 as of 2005.
It covers an area of 1,078.1 km².
As of 2010, the city of Pichucalco had a population of 14,212.
[ Other than the city of Pichucalco, the municipality had 86 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: Nuevo Nicapa (1,346), classified as rural.][
Pichucalco served as the head town for the ]Second Federal Electoral District of Chiapas
The Second Federal Electoral District of Chiapas ''(II Distrito Electoral Federal de Chiapas)'' is one of the 300 Electoral Districts into which Mexico is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 12 such d ...
between 1996 and 2005.
See also
*El Chichón
El Chichón, also known as Chichonal, is an active volcano in Francisco León, north-western Chiapas, Mexico. El Chichón is part of a geologic zone known as the Chiapanecan Volcanic Arc. El Chichón is a complex of domes with a tuff ring, made ...
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References
Municipalities of Chiapas
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