La Independencia, Chiapas

La Independencia
Municipality
Municipality of La Independencia in Chiapas
La Independencia Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 16°13′0″N91°50′0″W / 16.21667°N 91.83333°W / 16.21667; -91.83333
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
Area
• Total	658.0 sq mi (1,704.1 km2)
Population  (2010)
• Total	41,266

La Independencia is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 41,266, ^[1] up from 32,245 as of 2005. ^[2] It covers an area of 1,704.1 km² (658.0 sq mi).

As of 2010, the town of La Independencia had a population of 3,041. ^[1] Other than the town of La Independencia, the municipality had 122 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: El Triunfo (5,478), Venustiano Carranza (5,081), classified as urban, and San Antonio Buenavista (1,887), La Patria (1,616), Francisco Sarabia (1,499), Río Blanco (1,433), Buenavista (1,403), Emiliano Zapata (1,234), and Ojo de Agua (1,119), classified as rural. ^[1]

References

1. "La Independencia". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
2. "La Independencia". 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 27, 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2008.