Comitán

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Comitán de Domínguez is a municipality in the center of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The municipality is located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. The name comes from the Nahuatl Comitán and means " place of the potters ", the part of the name honors Belisario Domínguez Domínguez Palencia, a Mexican liberal politician.

The municipality was founded in 1915 today has about 141,000 inhabitants and covers 981.2 km ². Administrative seat and largest town in the municipality is the same Pueblo Mágico Comitán de Domínguez.

The municipality Comitán de Domínguez borders the Municipalities Amatenango del Valle, Chanal, Las Margaritas, La Independencia, La Trinitaria Tzimol, Socoltenango and Las Rosas.

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