Pichucalco

Pichucalco
Pichucalco town
Municipality of Pichucalco in Chiapas
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
  Total
1,078.1 km2 (416.3 sq mi)
Elevation
44 m (144 ft)
Population
 (2020)
  Total
29,990

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 km2.

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.