Cintalapa | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Other Name: | Cintalapa |
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 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 2404.6 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 88,106 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 16.6878°N -93.7108°W |
Cintalapa is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. It covers an area of 2404.6 km².
As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 88,106,[1] [2] up from 64,013 as of 2005.[3]
The municipality had 943 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Cintalapa de Figueroa (42,467), Lázaro Cárdenas (3,002), classified as urban, and Cereso 14 (El Amate) (2,243), Villamorelos (1,677), Nueva Tenochtitlán (Rizo de Oro) (1,640), Emiliano Zapata (1,507), Pomposo Castellanos (1,489), Francisco I. Madero (1,444), Mérida (1,412), and Vista Hermosa (1,149), classified as rural.[2]