Municipio Cintalapa

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Cintalapa
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Seat	Cintalapa de Figueroa
surface	2,404.6 km²
Residents	78,114 (2010)
density	32.5 inhabitants per km²
founding	1915
INEGI no.	07017
politics
Presidente municipal	Antonio Valdez Meza
Cintalapa de Figueroa

Coordinates: 16 ° 41 ′  N , 93 ° 43 ′  W

Cintalapa is a municipality in the far west of the Mexican state Chiapas . It is on the edge of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas . The name of this place comes from the Nahuatl and means "water in the subsoil".

The municipality has about 78,000 inhabitants and is 2,404.6 km² in size. The administrative center and largest city in the municipality is Cintalapa de Figueroa . Cintalapa borders the municipalities of Tecpatán , Ocozocoautla de Espinosa , Jiquipilas and Arriaga and the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz .

Web links

• Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Cintalapa (Spanish)
• INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Cintalapa (Spanish; PDF)
• El Portal de Chiapas: Map of the municipality (PDF; 18.0 MB)