Benemérito de las Américas 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 122
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 ...
. It covers an area of 979.2 km² and borders
Guatemala.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 17,282,
up from 14,446 as of 2005.
As of 2010, the town of Benemérito de las Américas had a population of 7,259.
[ Other than the town of Benemérito de las Américas, the municipality had 75 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: Flor de Cacao (1,655), classified as rural.][
]
Geography
Situated in the Montañas del Oriente, a large part of its territory is mountainous.
References
Municipalities of Chiapas
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