Tenejapa Municipality

Tenejapa Municipality
Municipality
Tenejapa Municipality

Location in Mexico

Coordinates: 16°49′0″N 92°31′1″W / 16.81667°N 92.51694°W / 16.81667; -92.51694Coordinates: 16°49′0″N 92°31′1″W / 16.81667°N 92.51694°W / 16.81667; -92.51694
Country  Mexico
State Chiapas
Area
  Total 38.4 sq mi (99.4 km2)
Population (2010)
  Total 40,268

Tenejapa Municipality is one of the 119 municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 40,268,[1] up from 33,161 as of 2005.[2] It covers an area of 99.4 km².

As of 2010, the town of Tenejapa had a population of 1,998.[1] Other than the town of Tenejapa, the municipality had 69 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Kotolte (2,503), Tzajalchén (2,276), Tz'aquiviljok (2,176), classified as urban, and Yashanal (1,893), Matzam (1,599), Chixtontic (1,512), Chacoma (1,462), Sibaniljá Pocolum (1,419), Tres Cerros (1,228), Ococh (1,187), Majosik (1,116), and Jomanichim (1,112), classified as rural.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tenejapa". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  2. "Tenejapa". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas. Retrieved August 3, 2008.
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