Chilón | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
Pushpin Label Position: | above |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Mexico |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mexico (de jure) Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (Controlled by) |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Chiapas |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 2490 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 111,554 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 17.1167°N -109°W |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Am |
Chilón is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. It covers an area of 2490 km2.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 111,554,[1] up from 77,686 as of 2005.[2]
As of 2010, the town of Chilón had a population of 7,368.[1] Other than the town of Chilón, the municipality had 703 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Bachajón (5,063), classified as urban, and Guaquitepec (2,868), Tzajalá (2,529), San Jerónimo Tulijá (1,859), Alán-Sac'jún (1,632), San Antonio Bulujib (1,206), Tacuba Nueva (1,189), El Mango (1,141), Chiquinival (1,101), and Santiago Pojcol (1,001), classified as rural.[1]