Tabasco Tabasco (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco), is one of the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa. It is located in ...

is a

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in Southeast

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that is divided into 17

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. According to the 2020 Mexican

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, it has the 20th largest population with inhabitants and is the 24th largest by land area spanning . Municipalities in Tabasco are administratively autonomous of the state according to the 115th article of the 1917

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. Every three years, citizens elect a municipal president (Spanish: ''presidente municipal'') by a

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system who heads a concurrently elected municipal council (''ayuntamiento'') responsible for providing all the public services for their constituents. The municipal council consists of a variable number of trustees and councillors (''regidores y síndicos''). Municipalities are responsible for public services (such as water and sewerage), street lighting, public safety, traffic, and the maintenance of public parks, gardens and cemeteries. They may also assist the state and federal governments in education, emergency fire and medical services, environmental protection and maintenance of monuments and historical landmarks. Since 1984, they have had the power to collect property taxes and user fees, although more funds are obtained from the state and federal governments than from their own income. The largest municipality by population is

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, with 683,607 residents while the smallest is Jonuta with 30,798 residents. The largest municipality by land area is Huimanguillo which spans , and the smallest is Jalpa de Méndez with . Tabasco has kept the same number of municipalities since 1883, one of the few Mexican states without recent changes.

Municipalities

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, largest municipality by population in Tabasco. File:Cárdenas_Parque_Independencia.jpg, alt=Downtown Cárdenas, Cárdenas, second largest municipality by population. File:Comalcalco.jpg, alt=Old Mayan city of Comalcalco,

Comalcalco Comalcalco is a city located in Comalcalco Municipality about 45 miles (60 km) northwest of Villahermosa in the Mexican state of Tabasco. Near the city is the Pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Comalcalco. The literal English transl ...

, third largest municipality by population.

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