Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas Explained

Venustiano Carranza
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
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Chiapas
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Km2:1396.1
Population As Of:2010
Population Total:61,341
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:16.3294°N -92.5625°W

Venustiano Carranza is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 61,341,[1] up from 52,833 as of 2005.[2] It covers an area of 1396.1 km2.

As of 2010, the city of Venustiano Carranza had a population of 15,496.[1] Other than the city of Venustiano Carranza, the municipality had 436 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: San Francisco Pujiltic (7,137), Soyatitán (3,904), Ricardo Flores Magón (3,483), Aguacatenango (3,413), Presidente Echeverría (Laja Tendida) (3,084), classified as urban, and San Francisco (El Calvito) (2,409), Vicente Guerrero (1,997), Paraíso del Grijalva (1,930), Guadalupe Victoria (1,767), Mariano Matamoros (1,566), Miguel Hidalgo (1,178), and El Puerto (1,092), classified as rural.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Venustiano Carranza. Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). 23 April 2014.
  2. Web site: Venustiano Carranza. Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas. July 27, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930031509/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/chiapas/municipios/07106a.htm. September 30, 2007. dead. mdy-all.