Siltepec is a
town
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Origin and use
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and one of the 125
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 38,143,
up from 32,457 as of 2005. It covered an area of .
The area and population of the municipality have since been reduced, after the western portions of its territory were split off to form the municipalities of
Capitán Luis Ángel Vidal in 2017 and
Honduras de la Sierra in 2019.
As of 2010, the town of Siltepec had a population of 3,400.
[ Other than the town of Siltepec, the municipality had 201 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Libertad Ventanas (1,283), El Palmar Grande (1,127), and Vega del Rosario (1,014), classified as rural.][
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References
Municipalities of Chiapas
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