Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán is a

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

Mexican state A Mexican State (), officially the Free and Sovereign State (), is a constituent federative entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico. Currently there are 31 states, each with its own constitution, government, state governor, a ...

Chiapas Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas, is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises Municipalities of Chiapas, 124 municipalities and its capital and large ...

in southern

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. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 31,075, up from 24,405 as of 2005. It covers an area of . As of 2010, the city of Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán had a population of 10,043. Other than the city of Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán, the municipality had 104 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Rincón Chamula (5,592), classified as urban, and San José Chapayal (2,059), Arroyo Grande (1,172), and Aurora Ermita (1,136), classified as rural. The area and population of the municipality have since been reduced, after the

Tzotzil The Tzotzil are an Indigenous Maya people of the central highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. As cited by Alfredo López Austin (1997), p. 133, 148 and following. As of 2000, they numbered about 298,000. The municipalities with the largest Tzotzil pop ...

town of Rincón Chamula and its surrounding communities were split off to form the municipality of

Rincón Chamula San Pedro Rincón Chamula San Pedro is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas, located approximately north of the state capital of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Unlike the mestizo population of the surrounding towns, its population is mostly indigenous Tzotzi ...

in 2017. Pueblo Nuevo is also the home of

Universidad Linda Vista Linda Vista University (Spanish: ''Universidad Linda Vista'') is a private university in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Linda Vista is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist educa ...

, a private university affiliated with the

Seventh-day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sa ...

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