Pichucalco is a

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and

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in the

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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 ...

. 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 2nd federal electoral district of Chiapas () is one of the Federal electoral districts of Mexico, 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies (Mexico), Chamber of Deputies and one o ...

between 1996 and 2005, and again from 2024.

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Municipalities of Chiapas {{Chiapas-geo-stub

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