Ángel Albino Corzo is one of the 122

municipalities of Chiapas Chiapas is a state in Southwest Mexico. According to the 2020 Mexican Census, it has the eighth largest population of all states with inhabitants and the 10th largest by land area spanning . Chiapas is officially divided into 124 municipalities, ...

, in southern

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. It covers an area of 1748.81 km². Its municipal seat is the town of Jaltenango de la Paz. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 26,628, up from 21,848 as of 2005. The municipality had 199 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Jaltenango de la Paz (10,427), Nueva Palestina (3,475), classified as urban, and Querétaro (2,203),

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(1,819), Nueva Colombia (1,568), and Nueva Independencia (1,283), classified as rural. The municipality was created on 24 February 1933 during the administration of

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Victórico R. Grajales. It was named for 19th-century Chiapas politician Ángel Albino Corzo (after whom Chiapa de Corzo was also named).

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