municipio
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'' (municipality) in the state of
Chiapas
Chiapas (; Tzotzil language, Tzotzil and Tzeltal language, Tzeltal: ''Chyapas'' ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, ...
, southern
Mexico
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, and the name of its largest settlement and seat of the municipal government. Situated in the
Sierra Madre de Chiapas
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range, the municipality has an area of approximately 1232 km2 at an average elevation of 540m
above mean sea level
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The comb ...
. INAFED (2005)
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 98,618.
As of 2010, the city of Villaflores had a population of 37,237. Other than the city of Villaflores, the municipality had 1,588 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Jesús María Garza (6,724), Cristóbal Obregón (4,664), Guadalupe Victoria (Lázaro Cárdenas) (3,583),
Benito Juárez
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(3,567),
Cuauhtémoc
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Ignacio Zaragoza
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(1,055), and
Calzada Larga
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