Jiquipilas

16.668333333333 - 93.644444444444Koordinaten: 16 ° 40 'N, 93 ° 39 ' W

Jiquipilas is a municipality in the west of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The municipality is situated on the edge of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas.

The name comes from the Nahuatl Jiquipilas and means " place of saddlebags ".

This municipality has about 38,000 inhabitants and an area of 1305.7 km ². Administrative seat and largest town of the Municipalities is the same Jiquipilas, the nearest larger towns in the municipality are Tierra y Libertad, José María Pino Suárez and Tiltepec.

The municipality borders the Municipalities Jiquipilas Cintalapa, Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, Villa Flores and Arriaga.

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