Ángel Albino Corzo | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
Pushpin Label Position: | above |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mexico |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Chiapas |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipal seat |
Subdivision Name2: | Jaltenango de la Paz |
Established Title: | Municipality created |
Established Date: | 24 February 1933 |
Area Total Km2: | 1748.81 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 26,628 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 16.5333°N -118°W |
Elevation M: | 644 |
Ángel Albino Corzo is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. It covers an area of 1748.81 km2. Its municipal seat is the town of Jaltenango de la Paz.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 26,628,[1] up from 21,848 as of 2005.[2]
The municipality had 199 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Jaltenango de la Paz (10,427), Nueva Palestina (3,475), classified as urban, and Querétaro (2,203), Francisco I. Madero (1,819), Nueva Colombia (1,568), and Nueva Independencia (1,283), classified as rural.[1]
The municipality was created on 24 February 1933 during the administration of Governor Victórico R. Grajales. It was named for 19th-century Chiapas politician Ángel Albino Corzo (after whom Chiapa de Corzo was also named).