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For the station, see Pichucalco railway station. Municipality in Chiapas, Mexico
Pichucalco
Municipality
Pichucalco townPichucalco town
Municipality of Pichucalco in ChiapasMunicipality of Pichucalco in Chiapas
Pichucalco is located in MexicoPichucalcoPichucalcoLocation in Mexico
Coordinates: 17°30′N 93°07′W / 17.500°N 93.117°W / 17.500; -93.117
Country Mexico
StateChiapas
Area
 • Total1,078.1 km (416.3 sq mi)
Elevation44 m (144 ft)
Population
 • Total29,990

Pichucalco is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 29,813, up from 29,357 as of 2005. It covers an area of 1,078.1 km.

As of 2010, the city of Pichucalco had a population of 14,212. Other than the city of Pichucalco, the municipality had 86 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) was: Nuevo Nicapa (1,346), classified as rural.

Pichucalco served as the head town for the second federal electoral district of Chiapas between 1996 and 2005, and again from 2024.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Pichucalco". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  2. "Pichucalco". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal / Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved August 1, 2008.
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