La Independencia is a
town
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and
municipality
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in the
Mexican state
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of
Chiapas
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in southern
Mexico
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.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 41,266,
up from 32,245 as of 2005.
It covers an area of .
As of 2010, the town of La Independencia had a population of 3,041.
[ Other than the town of La Independencia, the municipality had 122 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: El Triunfo (5,478), ]Venustiano Carranza
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(5,081), classified as urban, and San Antonio Buenavista (1,887), La Patria
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(1,616), Francisco Sarabia
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Meaning of the name Francisco
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(1,499), Río Blanco (1,433), Buenavista (1,403), Emiliano Zapata
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(1,234), and Ojo de Agua (1,119), classified as rural.[
]
References
Municipalities of Chiapas
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