Tacotalpa is a small town in the southern Mexican

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Tabasco Tabasco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco, is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Tabasco, 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa. It i ...

, the seat of the

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of the same name. The city is located about miles south of the coast of the

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, and about kilometers from the state capital

Villahermosa Villahermosa ( , ; "Beautiful Town") is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Tabasco, and serves as the municipal seat (governing county) of the state. Located in Southeast Mexico, Villahermosa is an important city because of its ...

, near the border with the state of

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. Tacotalpa is located near the

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. In 2010, the population of the town consisted of 8,071 inhabitants.

Population

The city of Tacotalpa currently has a population of 7,710 inhabitants, being one of the two smallest municipal capitals in Tabasco. INEGI 2020

Place names

Its name comes from the Nahuatl word ''Taco-tlal-pan'' , which means ''"land of brambles or weeds'' ." During the colonial era, when it was declared the capital of the province of Tabasco in 1677, the mayor Diego de Loyola founded the town with the name of ''Tacotalpa de la Real Corona.''

References

Populated places in Tabasco {{Tabasco-geo-stub