Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and one of the 125

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 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),

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(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 Chiapas highlands in southern 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 Tzo ...

town of Rincón Chamula and its surrounding communities were split off to form the municipality of Rincón Chamula San Pedro in 2017. Pueblo Nuevo is also the home of Universidad Linda Vista, a private university affiliated with the

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