Villa Corzo is a
city
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and
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in the
Mexican state
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of
Chiapas
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in southern
Mexico
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. The city of Villa Corzo (the municipal seat is located at (16 ° 11'N 93 ° 16'W / 16,183, 93,267 and 580 meters.)
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 74,477,
up from 68,685 as of 2005.
It covers an area of 4,026.7 km
2.
As of 2010, the city of Villa Corzo had a population of 10,841.
[ Other than the city of Villa Corzo, the municipality had 1,985 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: El Parral (10,865), San Pedro Buenavista (8,969), Revolución Mexicana (7,989), Valle Morelos (3,328), Nuevo Vicente Guerrero (2,906), classified as urban, and Jericó (Porvenir) (2,467), 1ro. de Mayo (2,381), ]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 ...
(1,496), Manuel Ávila Camacho
Manuel Ávila Camacho (; 24 April 1897 – 13 October 1955) was a Mexican politician and military leader who served as the president of Mexico from 1940 to 1946. Despite participating in the Mexican Revolution and achieving a high rank, he cam ...
(1,362), and Monterrey
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(1,086), classified as rural.[
]
References
Municipalities of Chiapas
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