Cintalapa is a town and
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
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in the
Mexican state
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of
Chiapas
Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas, is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises Municipalities of Chiapas, 124 municipalities and its capital and large ...
in southeastern
Mexico
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and is the westernmost municipality in Chiapas. It covers an area of 2404.6 km².
As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 88,106,
up from 64,013 as of 2005.
The municipality had 943 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were:
Cintalapa de Figueroa (42,467),
Lázaro Cárdenas
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (; 21 May 1895 – 19 October 1970) was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional Army during the Mexican Revo ...
(3,002), classified as urban, and
Cereso 14 (El Amate) (2,243),
Villamorelos (1,677),
Nueva Tenochtitlán (Rizo de Oro) (1,640),
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (; 8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the insp ...
(1,507),
Pomposo Castellanos (1,489),
Francisco I. Madero (1,444),
Mérida (1,412), and
Vista Hermosa (1,149), classified as rural.
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References
Municipalities of Chiapas
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