Bejucal de Ocampo

Municipality in Chiapas, Mexico

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Municipality of Bejucal de Ocampo in Chiapas

15°27′N 92°10′W / 15.450°N 92.167°W / 15.450; -92.167Country

MexicoStateChiapasArea

• Total32 sq mi (82 km²)Population

(2010)

• Total7,623

Bejucal de Ocampo is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. It covers an area of 82 km². It was named in honor of Mexican lawyer Melchor Ocampo.^[1]

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 7,623,^[2] up from 6,673 as of 2005.^[3]

The municipality had 37 localities, none of which had a population over 1,000.^[2]

It is the least-Catholic municipality in Mexico’s least-Catholic state, with only 19% of residents being Catholic, and most being Jehovah’s Witnesses or Baptists.^[4]

References

^ "Bejucal de Ocampo". Chiapas State Government. Archived from the original on January 17, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Bejucal de Ocampo". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^ "Bejucal de Ocampo". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2008.
^ “Religion in Mexico: Where angels fear to tread: Evangelicals are swooping on long-ignored regions”, The Economist, dated 24 March 2012.