Copainalá is a

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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

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. It covers an area of 330.4 km². As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 21,050, up from 19,298 as of 2005. As of 2010, the town of Copainalá had a population of 6,550. Other than the town of Copainalá, the municipality had 174 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Ángel Albino Corzo (Guadalupe) (1,469), and

Benito Juárez Benito Pablo Juárez García (; 21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) was a Mexican liberal politician and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. As a Zapotec, he was the first indigenous pre ...

(1,153), classified as rural. The Copainalá Zoque dialect is spoken, in addition to

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Copainalá Zoque

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OLAC resources in and about the Copainalá Zoque language
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