Tuxtla Chico 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 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

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 37,737, up from 33,467 as of 2005. It covers an area of 857 km². As of 2010, the town of Tuxtla Chico had a population of 7,026, up from 6,722 as of 2005. Other than the town of Tuxtla Chico, the municipality had 60 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: 2da. Sección de Medio Monte (4,182), 1ra. Sección de Medio Monte (2,680), 2da. Sección de Izapa (2,312), Manuel Lazos (1,826), El Sacrificio (1,483), 2da. Sección de Guillén (1,413), 1ra. Sección de Izapa (1,329), Talismán (1,311),

Guadalupe Victoria Guadalupe Victoria (; 29 September 178621 March 1843), born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, was a Mexican general and political leader who fought for independence against the Spanish Empire in the Mexican War of Independence. He ...

(1,251), 1ra. Sección de Guillén Centro (1,168), and Omoha (1,131), classified as rural.

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