Tzimol 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 14,009,
up from 11,925 as of 2005. It covers an area of 32.3 km
2.
As of 2010, the town of Tzimol had a population of 5,112.
[ Other than the town of Tzimol, the municipality had 119 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: San Vicente la Mesilla (2,604), classified as urban, and Ochusjob (1,173), and Héroes de Chapultepec (El Limón) (1,015), classified as rural.][
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History
People living in Tzimol are descendants of the ancient inhabitants of Escuintenango, missing population was located on the left bank of the upper Grijalva, whose name means exactly nahoa "fortified place of dogs." Some researchers (Culebro among them) believe that Comitan down several families (Gordillo, Abbey, Pinto, Guillén) which founded the villages of Mamantic, Las Margaritas and Islapa, those growing up had the idea to merge with the native Tojolabales formed the present town of Tzimol. In contemporary times, and according to the testimony of its own people, Tzimol participated in the events of the Mexican Revolution that shook the state, some of these historical facts as the stage had its own geographical area."Information"
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References
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Municipalities of Chiapas