Huixtán
Huixtán is a town and one of the 119 Municipalities of Chiapas in southern Mexico. In the Nahuatl language, "Huixtán" means "the place of the prickles". The municipality covers an area of 181.3 km². As of 2010, it had a population of 21,507, up from 18,630 in 2005. As of 2010, the town of Huixtán had a population of 1,716. Besides the town of Huixtán, the municipality has 66 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations) are Los Pozos (1,436), Lázaro Cárdenas (Chilil) (1,177), and Carmen Yalchuch (1,124), classified as rural.