Cunduacán

Also known as Cunduacan

Cunduacán is a municipality in the central portion of the Mexican state of Tabasco. It is located at about 18°4'0"North, 93°10'0"West.

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Settlement.official_name: Cunduacán
Settlement.image_skyline: Cunduacan.Monumento Batalla Jahuactal.jpg
Settlement.image_map: Cunduacán en Tabasco.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location of the municipality within Tabasco
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Mexico
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Tabasco
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Municipality
Settlement.leader_title: Municipal delegate
Settlement.leader_title2: Federal electoral district
Settlement.leader_name2: Tabasco's 3rd
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.population_as_of: 2005 census
Settlement.timezone: Zona Centro
Settlement.utc_offset: -6

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H. Ayuntamiento Cunduacán

Portal oficial del Municipio de Cunduacán, Tabasco. Información sobre gobierno 2024-2027, trámites, servicios públicos, turismo en la Chontalpa y cultura de la Atenas de Tabasco.

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Cunduacán
Population: 137257
Area: 598.7
Elevation: 18
Official website: cunduacan.gob.mx
Image: Centro Deportivo "Cunduacán 2000".jpg
Dialing code: 914
Licence plate code: 27

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native label: Cunduacán
Commons category: Cunduacán Municipality
inception: 1883-12-18
postal code: 86680–86698

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Cunduacán is a municipality in the central portion of the Mexican state of Tabasco. It is located at about 18°4'0"North, 93°10'0"West.

It is located in the Grijalva River Region, Chontalpa subregion. Its name originates from the Mayan cum-ua-cán, which means "place of pots of corn and serpents", which is also the name of the city which is the municipal seat of the municipality. It is made up of 10 villages, 31 ranches (rancherías), 59 ejidos and 13 colonias. The town had a 2005 census population of 81,392 inhabitants (the sixth-largest community in the state after Villahermosa, Cárdenas, and Comalcalco, Huimanguillo, and Macuspana), while the municipality had a population of 112,036 (www.inegi.gob.mx). The municipality has an area of , the eighth in the state in terms of geographical coverage and corresponding to 2.54% of the total area of the state. To the North are the municipalities of Comalcalco and Jalpa de Méndez, to the East are the municipalities of Nacajuca and Centro, to the South is the municipality of Centro and the State of Chiapas, and to the West is the municipality of Cárdenas. Geophysically the municipality is completely flat, as it is part of the coastal plain. Its hydrography consists of the rivers Mezcalapa, which marks its southern border with the municipalities of Centro, Samaria, Guayabal, Cucuyulapa, Barí, Cunduacán and Tular; and the lagoons of Cucuyulapa and Ballona. The state's Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco has various centers in Cunduacán.