Cacahoatán

Cacahoatán
Municipality
Municipality of Cacahoatán in Chiapas
Cacahoatán
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 17°10′N 92°10′W / 17.167°N 92.167°W / 17.167; -92.167
Country Mexico
StateChiapas
Area
  Total
67.1 sq mi (173.9 km2)
Population
 (2010)
  Total
43,811
ClimateAm

Cacahoatán is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. It covers an area of 173.9 km2. The land of Cocoa. Nahuatl orig.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 43,811, up from 39,033 as of 2005.

As of 2010, the city of Cacahoatán had a population of 16,572. Other than the city of Cacahoatán, the municipality had 112 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Salvador Urbina (2,555), classified as urban, and Faja de Oro (2,356), Agustín de Iturbide (2,211), Unión Roja (1,829), Ahuacatlán (1,583), Mixcum (1,502), Benito Juárez (1,473), and El Águila (1,274), classified as rural.