Pichucalco

For the station, see Pichucalco railway station.

Pichucalco
Municipality
Pichucalco town
Municipality of Pichucalco in Chiapas
Pichucalco Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 17°30′N93°07′W / 17.500°N 93.117°W / 17.500; -93.117
Country	Mexico
State	Chiapas
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, ^[1] up from 29,357 as of 2005. ^[2] It covers an area of 1,078.1 km².

As of 2010, the city of Pichucalco had a population of 14,212. ^[1] 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. ^[1]

Pichucalco served as the head town for the second federal electoral district of Chiapas between 1996 and 2005, and again from 2024.

See also

• El Chichón
• Pichucalco, 2013-02-04

References

1. "Pichucalco". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
2. "Pichucalco". 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 30, 2007. Retrieved August 1, 2008.