San Juan Cancuc | |
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Municipality | |
Location in Mexico | |
Coordinates: 16°54′N 92°22′W / 16.900°N 92.367°WCoordinates: 16°54′N 92°22′W / 16.900°N 92.367°W | |
Country |
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State | Chiapas |
Area | |
• Total | 90.2 sq mi (233.5 km2) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 29,016 |
San Juan Cancuc is a town and one of the 119 Municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 29,016, up from 20,688 as of 2005. 99.8% of the population speaks an indigenous language. It covers an area of 233.5 km².
As of 2010, the town of San Juan Cancuc had a population of 6,327. Other than the town of San Juan Cancuc, the municipality had 36 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Chiloljá (2,415), El Pozo (1,758), Nichteel San Antonio (1,726), and Chancolom (1,132), classified as rural.