Cacahoatán is a

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and

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in the

Mexican state A Mexican State (), officially the Free and Sovereign State (), is a constituent federative entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico. Currently there are 31 states, each with its own constitution, government, state governor, a ...

Chiapas Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas, is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises Municipalities of Chiapas, 124 municipalities and its capital and large ...

, in southern

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. It covers an area of 173.9 km². The land of Cocoa. Nahuatl orig. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 43,811, up from 39,033 as of 2005. As of 2010, the city of Cacahoatán had a population of 16,572. Other than the city of Cacahoatán, the municipality had 112 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Salvador Urbina (2,555), classified as urban, and Faja de Oro (2,356),

Agustín de Iturbide Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu (; 27 September 178319 July 1824), commonly known as Agustín de Iturbide and later by his regnal name Agustín I, was the first Emperor of Mexico from 1822 until his abdication in 1823. An offi ...

(2,211), Unión Roja (1,829), Ahuacatlán (1,583), Mixcum (1,502),

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

(1,473), and El Águila (1,274), classified as rural.

Geography

Climate

Cacahoatán has a

tropical monsoon climate An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate subtype that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ' ...

with moderate to little rainfall from December to March and heavy to very heavy rainfall from April to November with extremely heavy rainfall in June and September. It is the wettest significant Mexican city.

References

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