Pichucalco

Pichucalco
Pichucalco town
Pichucalco town
Municipality of Pichucalco in Chiapas
Municipality of Pichucalco in Chiapas
Pichucalco is located in Mexico
Pichucalco
Pichucalco
Location 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 km2 (416.3 sq mi)
Elevation
44 m (144 ft)
Population
 (2020)
 • 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,[1] up from 29,357 as of 2005.[2] It covers an area of 1,078.1 km2.

As of 2010, the city of Pichucalco had a population of 14,212.[1] 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.[1]

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

  1. ^ a b c "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.