Ixhuatán is a town 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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. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 10,239, up from 8,877 as of 2005 . It covers an area of 72 km². As of 2010, the town of Ixhuatán had a population of 3,621. Other than the town of Ixhuatán, the municipality had 53 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were:

Ignacio Zaragoza Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín (; March 24, 1829September 8, 1862) was a Mexican general and politician. He led the Mexican army of 600 men that defeated 6,500 invading French forces, including the elite French legionnaires at the Battle of Puebla ...

(1,222), and Chapayal Grande (1,112), classified as rural.

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Municipalities of Chiapas {{Chiapas-geo-stub