Huixtla 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 51,359, up from 48,476 as of 2005. It covers an area of 385 km². As of 2010, the city of Huixtla had a population of 32,033. Other than the city of Huixtla, the municipality had 250 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were:

Francisco I. Madero Francisco Ignacio Madero González (; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and statesman, who became the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in a coup d'etat in February 1 ...

(1,804),

Colonia Obrera Colonia Obrera is an administrative neighborhood of the borough of Cuauhtémoc in the center of Mexico City. It was established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and became home to many artisans and industrial workmen. Up to the early 19 ...

(1,427), Cantón Rancho Nuevo (1,123), and Cantón las Delicias (1,062), classified as rural.

References

Municipalities of Chiapas {{Chiapas-geo-stub