Tuxtla Chico

Municipality in Chiapas, Mexico

14°56′N 92°10′W / 14.933°N 92.167°W / 14.933; -92.167Country

MexicoStateChiapasSettledPre-Hispanic periodMunicipality created1915Area

• Total857 km² (331 sq mi)Population

(2010)

• Total37,737Websitehttp://www.tuxtlachico.chiapas.gob.mx

Tuxtla Chico is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 37,737,^[1] up from 33,467 as of 2005.^[2] It covers an area of 857 km².

As of the same, the town of Tuxtla Chico had a population of 7,026,^[1] up from 6,722 as of 2005.^[2] Other than the town of Tuxtla Chico, the municipality had 60 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were:

2da. Sección de Medio Monte (4,182)
1ra. Sección de Medio Monte (2,680)
2da. Sección de Izapa (2,312)
Manuel Lazos (1,826)
El Sacrificio (1,483)
2da. Sección de Guillén (1,413)
1ra. Sección de Izapa (1,329)
Talismán (1,311)
Guadalupe Victoria (1,251)
1ra. Sección de Guillén Centro (1,168), and
Omoha (1,131), classified as rural.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Tuxtla Chico". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Tuxtla Chico". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal / Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved August 18, 2008.