San Fernando, Chiapas

Municipality in Chiapas, Mexico

16°52′0″N 93°12′0″W / 16.86667°N 93.20000°W / 16.86667; -93.20000Country

MexicoStateChiapasArea

• Total99.7 sq mi (258.3 km²)Population

(2020)

• Total41,793 • Density420/sq mi (160/km²)

San Fernando is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico.

As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 41,793,^[1]^[2] up from 26,436 as of 2005.^[3] It covers an area of 258.3 km².

As of 2010, the town of San Fernando had a population of 9,651.^[2] Other than the town of San Fernando, the municipality had 196 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: El Progreso (2,704), El Copalar (2,039), Francisco I. Madero (1,993), Gabriel Esquinca (1,968), Benito Juárez (1,488), Viva Cárdenas (1,431), Álvaro Obregón (1,126), and 16 de Septiembre (1,020), classified as rural.^[2]

References

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^ "San Fernando (Municipality, Mexico) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
^ ^a ^b ^c "San Fernando". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^ "San Fernando". 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 30 September 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2008.