Copainalá

Municipality in Chiapas, Mexico

17°5′N 93°12′W / 17.083°N 93.200°W / 17.083; -93.200Country

MexicoStateChiapasArea

• Total127.6 sq mi (330.4 km²)Population

(2010)

• Total21,050

Copainalá is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. It covers an area of 330.4 km².

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 21,050,^[1] up from 19,298 as of 2005.^[2]

As of 2010, the town of Copainalá had a population of 6,550.^[1] Other than the town of Copainalá, the municipality had 174 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Ángel Albino Corzo (Guadalupe) (1,469), and Benito Juárez (1,153), classified as rural.^[1]

The Copainalá Zoque dialect is spoken, in addition to Spanish.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Copainalá". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^ "Copainalá". 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 July 25, 2008.

External links

Copainalá Zoque

Harrison, Roy; Margarita Harrison; Castulo Garcia H. (1981). Diccionario zoque de Copainalá. Mariano Silva y Aceves. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. Archived from the original on 2013-07-06. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
OLAC resources in and about the Copainalá Zoque language

State of Chiapas