Ocozocoautla
| Ocozocoautla de Espinosa | |
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| Municipality | |
 Ocozocoautla de Espinosa
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| Coordinates: 16°45′N 93°22′W / 16.750°N 93.367°WCoordinates: 16°45′N 93°22′W / 16.750°N 93.367°W | |
| Country |
 Mexico
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| State | Chiapas |
| Municipal seat | Ocozocoautla de Espinosa |
| Government | |
| • Municipal president | Ramiro Chambé |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,476.60 km2 (956.22 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 82,059 |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Website | (Spanish) |
Ocozocoautla de Espinoza is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is located in the western part of the state, 24 km west of Tuxtla Gutierrez covering parts of the Depresión Central (Central Depression) and the Montañas del Norte (Northern Mountains). It is bordered to the north by Tecpatán, to the east by Berriozábal, Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Suchiapa, to the south by Villaflores and to the west by Jiquipilas and Cintalapa. The name comes from the Nahoa language and means ‘forest of ocozote trees’. ‘De Espinosa’ was added in 1928 to honor Raymundo Enríquez Espinosa who was the first governor of the state of Chiapas. Ocozocoautla gained city status in 1926. The climate is warm and humid and the vegetation is mostly high and medium rainforest.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 82,059, up from 72,426 as of 2005.
As of 2010, the city of Ocozocoautla de Espinosa had a population of 39,180. Other than the city of Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, the municipality had 1,069 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Ocuilapa de Juárez (3,921), classified as urban, and Vicente Guerrero (Matamoros) (2,009), Guadalupe Victoria (1,876), Ignacio Zaragoza (El Morro) (1,675), La Independencia (Las Pilas) (1,178), Hermenegildo Galeana (1,068), and Alfonso Moguel (1,022), classified as rural.
The carnival of this town is based on native Zoque traditions that date back to pre-Hispanic times and Christian traditions brought over by the Spanish. It celebrates both the proximity of Holy Week and the resurrection of the land and of life. It begins the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. On this day, ‘’’cohuinás,’’’ who are people responsible for organizing and coordinating religious activities in the town, gather before the patron saint of the town, Saint John the Baptist to announce the beginning of the carnaval, which is primarily a dance festival.
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