Soyaló 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
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
Mexican state of
Chiapas 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 9,740,
up from 7,767 as of 2005.
[ ] It covers an area of 178.9 km².
As of 2010, the town of Soyaló had a population of 4,014.
[ Other than the town of Soyaló, the municipality had 20 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: ]Francisco Sarabia
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''.
Nicknames
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...
(3,318), classified as rural.[
]
References
Municipalities of Chiapas
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