Motozintla | |
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 |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1620 |
Established Title2: | Town status |
Established Date2: | 23 October 1912 |
Established Title3: | City status |
Established Date3: | 10 August 1954 |
Area Total Km2: | 782.5 |
Area Blank1 Title: | City |
Area Blank1 Km2: | 5.26 |
Population As Of: | 2020 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 76398 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | City |
Population Blank1: | 27815 |
Population Blank2 Title: | Gender |
Population Blank2: | 37425 males and 38973 females |
Population Density Blank1 Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 15.3708°N -92.2483°W |
Website: | http://www.motozintla.chiapas.gob.mx/ |
Motozintla (Motozintla de Mendoza) is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico.
Motozintla occupies part of Mexico's border with Guatemala and is adjacent to the municipalities of Siltepec (to the north), Escuintla and Huixtla (to the west), Tuzantán and Tapachula (to the south), and Mazapa de Madero and El Porvenir (to the northeast). It covers an area of 782.5 km².
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 69,119,[2] up from 59,875 as of 2005.[3]
The municipality had 416 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Motozintla de Mendoza (23,755), classified as urban, and Belisario Domínguez (2,011), classified as rural.[2]