Siltepec 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 in southern
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 38,143,
up from 32,457 as of 2005. It covered an area of .
The area and population of the municipality have since been reduced, after the western portions of its territory were split off to form the municipalities of
Capitán Luis Ángel Vidal
Capitán Luis Ángel Vidal is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas, located approximately southeast of the state capital of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Its inhabitants are of Guatemalan origin and speak the Mam language.
Geography
The municipa ...
in 2017 and
Honduras de la Sierra
Honduras de la Sierra is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas, located approximately southeast of the state capital of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Gazetted in 2019, it is the newest municipality in Chiapas.
Geography
The municipality of Hondur ...
in 2019.
As of 2010, the town of Siltepec had a population of 3,400.
[ Other than the town of Siltepec, the municipality had 201 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Libertad Ventanas (1,283), El Palmar Grande (1,127), and Vega del Rosario (1,014), classified as rural.][
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References
Municipalities of Chiapas
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