Huixtán is a

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and one of the 119

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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. In the Nahuatl language, ''Huixtán'' means "the place of the prickles". The municipality covers an area of 181.3 km². As of 2010, it had a population of 21,507, up from 18,630 in 2005. As of 2010, the town of Huixtán had a population of 1,716. Besides the town of Huixtán, the municipality has 66 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations) are Los Pozos (1,436), Lázaro Cárdenas (Chilil) (1,177), and Carmen Yalchuch (1,124), classified as rural.

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