San Fernando, Chiapas

San Fernando
Municipality
San Fernando
Location in Mexico
Coordinates: 16°52′0″N 93°12′0″W / 16.86667°N 93.20000°W / 16.86667; -93.20000Coordinates: 16°52′0″N 93°12′0″W / 16.86667°N 93.20000°W / 16.86667; -93.20000
Country  Mexico
State Chiapas
Area
 • Total 99.7 sq mi (258.3 km2)
Population (2010)
 • Total 33,060

San Fernando is a town and one of the 119 Municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico.

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 33,060,[1] up from 26,436 as of 2005.[2] It covers an area of 258.3 km2.

As of 2010, the town of San Fernando had a population of 9,651.[1] 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.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "San Fernando". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "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.


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